Filming was completed in 22 days.
Shares its title with an actual town in Ohio, however the filmmakers were adamant that there was no connection beyond them just liking the name.
The film was shot during the dead of winter in Ohio and temperatures were often below zero. Keith David maintained that the weather conditions on The Thing (1982), one of the films that inspired this one, were even colder.
Nicholas Bushman and Mike Dwyer wrote the script together in just two weeks. Because Dwyer was also funding the production, they were able to begin filming only a month later.
Technically Seth Hammond's second film, although this is his first featured role. Before this, he had a non-speaking cameo as a bartender in director Nicholas Bushman's first film, Sandbar (2012), and also worked behind the scenes on that production.