The film was produced by Nicolas Cage's Saturn Films.
Of the film's cast, three actors had previously appeared in vampire films: Kier played Count Dracula in Blood for Dracula (1974) and Dragonetti in Blade (1998) while Elwes played Arthur Holmwood in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and Dafoe as 2nd Phone Booth Youth in The Hunger (1983).