Larry King was cast after he expressed interest in being killed in a feature film while interviewing 5-Second Films.
The filmmakers set a goal to try and break the record for most kills in a slasher film. This record was previously held by The Summer of Massacre (2012), which had a body count of 155.
The first film produced by the website 5secondfilms.com. Founded in 2008, creators of the site produced one 5 second film every weekday until 2013. This feature film is based on one such short, a fake trailer.
There was a scheduling conflict with the Officer Sminkle story line and their 3rd act forest scenes were all shot in the filmmaker's backyards using dozens of abandoned Christmas trees to make up the woods.
Derek's line "The flowers, the music, the champagne" is from The Room (2003). Greg Sestero, who delivered the line in the earlier film, delivers it with exactly the same intonation here.