The plot device of aliens using human blood for medicine was pulled from a story written by writer/director Brandon Slagle in High School called "Blood is the Cure".
The very last line in the rolling end credits is "No extraterrestrial beings were harmed in the making of this movie."
As with other Mahal productions, brothers Sonny and Michael Mahal reportedly raised the budget for this film through crowd funding. Set in Los Angeles, the alien invasion movie was impressively filmed in Los Angeles (not, say, Canada or Bulgaria), which implies guerilla filmmaking had to have played a part.