Though the script is only ninety pages, the original cut of the movie was almost three hours long.
The liquor store monologue was written the night before Evan-Riley Brown performed it.
In the written script, the character O never speaks. Actor Carlo Figlio improvised all of his lines.
In the digging scene, actor Timothy Lee DePriest actually shoved actor Danté Belardinelli into the rocks while he was urinating.
Most of the punk gangs wardrobe items were director Victor Treviño's clothes from high school.