Though it is set in eastern Europe, the entire film was shot in Thomaston, GA.
Andrew Kadikian, Nick Laurant, Keith Hodder and Brett Driver all originally met online through their filmmaking work on YouTube.
The Tortured script went through over 17 drafts.
Between the shooting and the final cut the film went through so many re-cuts and revisions that it does not even match the shooting script anymore.
The only local filmmaker at the time of shooting was Brett Driver, all the others flew in for the shoot.