Producer Anthony Ginnane has said that the movie's original screenplay reminded him of John Carpenter's 'The Fog' (1980). In 'The Dreaming: On Camera Interview with Producer Tony Ginnane' (2013), he says: ''I liked it immediately because it reminded me of 'The Fog' in a way, a coastal town sort of back and forth, jump between the present and the past...''.
Genre movie producer Tony Ginnane had very much liked the film's director Mario Andreacchio's recent outback suspense thriller movie 'Fair Game' (1986). Ginnane said in 'The Dreaming: On Camera Interview with Producer Tony Ginnane' (2013): ''...Mario Andreacchio, who had done a movie in South Australia, that I wasn't involved in, but that I was very fond of, a couple of years earlier, called 'Fair Game' [1986], which was a lovely picture about a woman being chased through the outback that [writer-director Quentin] Tarantino these days is a big, big fan of, and...so I was real keen to work with Mario...''.
Director Mario Andreacchio replaced the film's original director Craig Lahiff as this movie's director with the latter leaving the director's chair over creative differences.
In 1989, the movie and director Mario Andreacchio were the winners of a Special Mention certification at the Fanta Film Festival in Rome, Italy.
According to the 'Oz Movies' website, ''the film was never given a domestic release, and it became a very modest straight to video and TV item, with minor international sales, complicated by the original distributor Goldfarb, walking away from its pre-sale commitment to the project.''