(November, 2014) A DVD copy of "Defcon 2012" was posted on ebay.com for a whopping $18,051.31. That same week, another seller was offering a copy for $11,500.30.
The producer Brian Neil Hoff, was able to obtain permission to film in a closed-down shopping mall which lay boarded up for over 12 years and was considered haunted in the community. As of 2014 the mall has since been torn down to make way for a new shopping and entertainment area of Palm Springs. Filming had to be halted several times because rats were screeching so loudly, their sounds were picked by the microphones. So large was the old mall, that at one point a police SWAT team was using the space to train their officers at the same time some scenes were being shot.
R. Christian Anderson's feature film directorial debut which won "Best Science-Fiction Feature Film" at the "New York International Independent Film Festival".
Shy Pilgreen's character's name is "E-San", which in Japanese means "heritage".
When the final edit of the film totaled only 79 minutes, producers decided to have a "wrap around" story written of an independent filmmaker who disappears with his cast and crew to lengthen the film. Because the director, R. Christian Anderson, was no longer available, the executive producer, Carolina Liechtenstein, stepped in to direct a new opening segment, bringing the theatrical release to 92 minutes.
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