Automaton was first made as only a Trailer by Steven C Miller while still in school.
The film was shot in only 9 days.
Make-up artist Rick Gonzales agreed to do the film because he wanted to do the scene in which a zombie tears a fetus out of a pregnant woman's stomach and eats it.
The casting for the picture was done only a week prior to the shooting of it.
None of the extras were paid.