A mile marker seen during the movie shows "Haddonfield" as a nearby city. Haddonfield is the setting for the movie Halloween (1978).
The use of a trampoline to escape the zombies is from the classic Super Nintendo game Zombies Ate My Neighbors (1993), where the main characters use trampolines to jump from garden to garden.
The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2010 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year.
Features adult film star Missy Martinez as the female police officer whose uniform gets caught in a fence and flashes the scouts.
A patch on Ben's shirt states that they are a part of the "American Scouts Society". A.S.S.