Director
Nicolas F. Costoglou and co-writer Max S. Ebeling came the idea to this project while eating at a local takeaway, while the show
Mountain Monsters (2013) was shown on TV. They both found it to be so unintentionally funny, that they couldn't stop watching and thought about the fact that these people get paid to run through a forest while screaming at the top of their lungs and trying to catch fantastical beasts, which they never actually do.
Thinking to themselves that they could easily do the same and have fun with it, they worked on the script and gathered their friends to work on the film for two days, which was all they needed to get a equally entertaining result...