Clarke was concerned for the Galway premiere in 2018, for women in the age demographic who could have undergone the treatment depicted in the film; however, the film met with positive reception.
Director Clarke was inspired by the long-running system of various forms of abuse against women inflicted by the Church and Government system, prevalent in the heyday of institutions in the 1960s.
Magdalene Laundries were a long-running institution (250 years) across Ireland that oversaw women ranging from the impregnated out of marriage to prostitutes, the physically and mentally disabled, and women deemed to possess 'loose morals'.
Unlike most found-footage films, 16mm olden-style Super-8 camera footage is utilized by the characters.
The second theatrically-released found-footage horror film to deal with the Divine Comedy, and Dante's Inferno after 'As Above, So Below' (2014).