 "Haunted Forest" was produced under Regal Films and is directed by Ian Loreños.Loreños described the direction of the film as a mixture of Regal Film's "usual style" on horror and his own take on the genre.He said that the production team decided to put more "organic horror" elements in the film aside from relying on scaring the audience by surprise while adding that the film had "story" and "lessons".