DITRADE(Robert Rodriguez): [fictional brand names]: Toby is seen eating Great White Bites cereal, also seen in Rodriguez' Planet Terror (2007).
The blinkers blink when the aliens go across the school floor.
Shot in the spring and summer of 2008, but post-production took so long that the film wasn't released until a year later.
Released theatrically in the US on the same day as Inglourious Basterds (2009) by Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez' last film was their collaboration Grindhouse (2007).
Jon Cryer (Bill Thompson) and James Spader (Mr. Black) last appeared together in the movie Pretty in Pink (1986).