The original story by Felipe M. Guerra was written in 2009 with the initial title "Night of the Prey", in reference to the popular saying "A day for the hunter, a day for the prey". He teamed up with co-director Geisla Fernandes to finally produce the film, and it was her suggestion to change the title to the more direct and effective "The Augusta Street Ripper".
According to co-director Felipe M. Guerra, the original idea was heavily inspired by something that happened in the comic book Preacher. In Preacher #20, the vampire Cassidy - a friend of the protagonist Jesse Custer - is trapped and shot multiple times by a sadistic gunman. When the vampire "dies", the torturer wait several hours until full recovery of the creature to repeat the treatment for several days. Felipe wondered how it would be terrible if a vampire (or, in this case, a vampire-girl) was imprisoned by a serial killer, who could torture her to death daily, expect her to rise again and repeat the brutal treatment for years.
Monica Mattos was the first choice of co-director Felipe for the role of the vampire. At the time of filming, Monica had recently retired from the adult film industry (she appeared in over 200 porn movies), but she's still known as the most famous porn star of Latin America.
In the first part of the shoot, the production was so poor that the directors had to persuade most of the staff to work for free. Then they did a crowd-funding project to get the value of $3000, which allowed them to complete filming and still pay a small cache to the actors and crew. Actress Monica Mattos and special effects technician Kapel Furman worked for a much smaller cache than usual because they liked the script.
The filming of the scenes in which the vampire is tortured was a real-life torture for the actress Monica Mattos: due to the tight schedule of filming (producers couldn't afford additional dailies), she had to remain lying, naked and with hands and legs cuffed for up to 10 hours on some days. The situation got worse when she received special FX makeup and fake blood, because the materials glued the actress' skin to the plastic on which she was lying, requiring sprayed water to release her without pain. During the staging of the practical FX in the torture scenes, she was also injured (but not seriously) on at least three occasions.