Trivia

The film was shot in chronological order, and the ending was created and improvised on-set, according to Elle Fanning.

One of the film's most striking features is its use of color. In an interview, director Nicolas Winding Refn stated that he is in fact color blind, and can only perceive contrast and primary colors.

Originally, a crew member was going to break the mirror in the bathroom. However, when he hit the mirror with a heavy vase, nothing happened. Nicolas Winding Refn panicked. So in a last minute effort, he asked Abbey Lee to throw a trashcan into the mirror in one shot, hoping for the best. On the first take, the mirror broke in a hundred pieces. This is the shot that was used in the film.

Elle Fanning was sixteen years old when the film started shooting, turned seventeen during filming, and eighteen years old when the film premiered.

Ruby's boss was played by the actual mortician who worked at the morgue used as the location.