The junkyard location was actually the Southern Indiana Recycling facility. The owners provided the location free of charge and gave the crew the run of the grounds from dusk til dawn.
Originally, director Mark Bessenger planned to superimpose the film's title over the apple and save the credits for the end. Bessenger was surfing You Tube and noticed the opening titles from La notte dei demoni (1988), which inspired him to create an animated opening titles sequence.
Writer-director Mark Bessenger and actor Windham Beacham both had difficulty with the football speech since neither were fans of the sport.
In the original version of the script, the hitchhiking couple were named Jack and Amy. Producer Dennis Ashe came up with the idea of adding gay characters, so they became Cary and Vogel.