This film was shot with a very low budget. They had no money for sound editing but the producer got those services for free. That was because some new equipment had just been installed and the lab needed a project to test the new setup, so they used this project.
The movie was inspired by Stanley Kubrick's Der Tiger von New York (1955). The picture is is based on the making of that movie. The name of the fictitious producer of the film-within-the-film is "Farris"; the producer of "Killer's Kiss" was James B. Harris. However, the timid and much-put-upon "Farris" bears very little resemblance to Harris.
This motion picture's opening title card read: "Hollywood, 1955". This was the same year as Stanley Kubrick's movie Der Tiger von New York (1955) launched.
The name of the movie-within-a-movie, the motion picture being shot during the film, was "Strange and Dangerous". The film-within-a-film resembles Stanley Kubrick's Der Tiger von New York (1955).
The first name of the movie's film director, Stanley (Peter Coyote), was derived from the first name of director Stanley Kubrick. The character though is only billed in the credits as "The Director".