DITRADE(Robert Rodriguez): [fictional brand names]: Toby is seen eating Great White Bites cereal, also seen in Rodriguez' Planet Terror (2007).
Shot in the spring and summer of 2008, but post-production took so long that the film wasn't released until a year later.
The blinkers blink when the aliens go across the school floor.
Released theatrically in the US on the same day as Inglourious Basterds (2009) by Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez' last film was their collaboration Grindhouse (2007).
Black Falls Community is in the shape of the wishing rock.