Originally titled "Scarecrow," the script was featured in the 2014 Blood List, which lists the year's unproduced most-liked dark screenplays.
The film was dropped from a theatrical release. Also, the directing credit changed from Dennis Iliadis, who directed The Last House on the Left (2009), to Quinn Lasher who has zero other credits.
Screen Gems initially had distribution rights to the film, but dropped the film and was later acquired by Vertical Entertainment.
The hotel they were staying at in production was abandoned at the beginning. A crew member was the only person in the hotel for the first weekend.