Director Josh Trank made Dane DeHaan, Michael B. Jordan, and Alex Russell live in a house together for fifteen days, in order to create a genuine bond between the three actors.
The film has no original score, only using sources such as radio and iPods to generate music.
The pink-haired girl played by Anna Wood, whom Andrew was making out with, was Dane DeHaan's (Andrew) wife in real life.
The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2010 Blacklist, a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year.
For budgetary reasons, the film was shot primarily in Cape Town, South Africa and American style vehicles had to be shipped in for the production - due to the fact that their vehicles drive on the left.