Blake Perlman, who plays the deputy, is the real-life daughter of Ron Perlman, who plays the sheriff.
Ian McShane's character scratching a chalkboard and offering his services to catch the monster is a spoof of the same scene in Der weiße Hai (1975), with Der weiße Hai (1975)'s character Quint.
In the woods as the camera crew set up to shoot Brock's Bigfoot hunt introduction, Brock has a meltdown at a crew member standing in his eye line with a light meter. Brock's dialogue is, word for word, taken from the Christian Bale meltdown on the set of Terminator: Die Erlösung (2009), whose audio went viral in 2009.
The film was partly financed by the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, a public university in New York state, through the state's film tax credit. This investment was part of the school's Central New York Film Hub, a $15 million studio near Syracuse built to attract filmmakers to central New York. The school ultimately lost $750,000 of their investment on the film, and the Film Hub was sold off for just one dollar.
Tribute to Ist das Leben nicht schön? (1946). In It's A Wonderful Life when George has no longer been born, the town name changes from 'Bedford Falls' to 'Pottersville', after old man Potter.