A portion of the film's budget came from drug money. A friend of the two directors came over one day and gave them a roll of cash in a brown paper bag. That friend later went to jail on drug charges. The filmmakers claim they didn't know where the money came from at the time they accepted it, but add they probably would've still taken it.
The found footage material with Ruby Larocca and Monica Puller was filmed after principal shooting had wrapped in 2009. Bill McLaughlin wasn't available to reprise his role as the killer Jon Beest, so co-writer/co-director Evan Makrogiannis had to stand in for McLaughlin for this new footage.