For the scene where Trevino is supposed to smash the TV to pieces with the baseball bat, the bat (which had been Mosley's as a child) unexpectedly broke in half, while the TV remained unscathed. This caused a delay in filming which lasted several hours. The next time the scene was to be done, Mosley did not tell Trevino that he had unscrewed the frame so that when the bashing started, the TV front would literally pop off. When the camera rolled, Trevino assumed he was going to battling the same strong tv again, so when the explosion happened, it was more violent than ever, achieving what Mosley wanted as a "ballet of destruction."
Father Joe Schumacher, the narrator of the film, is a real-life priest who presided over St. Matthew's Catholic Church where Mosley attended church and Sunday school growing up. Mosley always loved his priest's voice and wanted as a kid to put his favorite priest into a film, so he finally got a chance... twelve years later. He hoped it would provide some realism to the Mass proceedings.
After directing his actor-godfather in his last short BALLS IN THE ICEBOX, Mosley vowed to always find a role for John Rainone in every film. If you look closely, Rainone makes a blink-or-you-miss-it cameo as a clown in the TV Guide that Trevino is flipping through. Rainone is dressed as Bonkers the Clown, a character he created for an after-school kids' show made for public television called CLUB 27, that ran successfully through the 1980s.
The film was shot on 16mm with a Russian camera, a Krasnogorsk-3, that was literally falling apart as the movie was made, apparently the fault of a lying seller from whom Mosley bought it off eBay.
The cross on the wall that fades in and out was an old prop made by Mosley's old friend from grade school, Nick Blanton, for when they made vampire movies on Hi-8 in the Mosley backyard. The armchair belongs to Mosley's friend and collaborator, filmmaker Sai Selvarajan, for whom he acted in Selvarajan's short film, SEPARATED BY LIGHT.