Despite taking proper precautions and steps, the amount of smoke produced for the transformation scenes managed to trip the carefully covered smoke alarms... at 3am.
Every scene and dialogue was improvised.
Francisco, the puppet, stands tall at about 25 inches.
The puppet (Francisco) used to play Ricky was a birthday gift for actor Tasi Alabastro, and required the crew to drive two hours away to retrieve it in time for shooting.
In between takes, during the exterior scenes, puppeteers, Tasi Alabastro and Richard Gali would engage curious passersby with Francisco, the puppet.