The director was to make his Hitchcokian debut as The Morgue Attendant but had to step out due to the complexities of the scene. The 1st AD stepped in to assume the role.
The autopsy table that Zoe Hunter laid on in the morgue scene was an actual decommissioned table that, when delivered to 'John Rusnik', still had old and dried remains in the drainage pipes.
Phobia played at the 2007 New Filmmakers Fall Film Festival on Halloween.