Director Adam Green said that he got the idea for Victor Crowley's backstory when he attended Camp Avoda in 1983 at age 8. During the first day at camp, the counsellors had warned the kids that a man named Hatchet-Face would "come and get them" if they got near a particular cabin. Since Green was starting to get into horror movies, he decided to make up a backstory for Hatchet-Face, which he told to the rest of the kids in his cabin that same night. This backstory, which involved a deformed boy accidentally being killed by his father who was trying to save him from a housefire, was eventually re-used for Victor Crowley's origin story.
