In order to be fully aware of their participation in the movie and graphic content, the parents of the young cast were asked to be on set during shooting.
Shot in 2006 over a week with a skeleton crew of five for a budget of $30,000 to $35,000, but wasn't released until 2011 by Anchor Bay Films.
The film became a pop culture sensation in November of 2020, after it went viral on the video-sharing social media platform TikTok - where it received 83 million views.