In segment one, "The Stranger", Piper Laurie played the same type of verbally abusive mother that she portrayed in the original Carrie (1976) 30 years earlier. In both movies, she throws a drink in her daughter's face.
The film cast includes two Oscar winners: Mary Steenburgen and Marcia Gay Harden; and five Oscar nominees: Piper Laurie, Toni Collette, Josh Brolin, James Franco and Bruce Davison.
The dead girl that the film centers on is played by Brittany Murphy, who died 3 years later, at age 32.
When Krista (Brittany Murphy) is making a telephone call near the end of the movie, there's a missing child flyer in the phone booth for Leah's (Rose Byrne) missing sister.