In an interview with Marc Shapiro in Fangoria magazine on the set of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), Donald Pleasence said about the film: "I rather liked Death Line (a.k.a. Raw Meat). The idea of my playing an eccentric detective who can't solve the mystery of all these bodies in the English subway was a different turn for me, as was a film I made in Italy called Nothing Underneath. I played another detective chasing down a killer who was murdering models. I don't know if it ever reached the U.S. but it's a bit of a cult film in Italy."
"Nothing Underneath" was the 22nd most successful film of the 1985-1986 season in Italy, beating Hollywood blockbusters like "The Goonies", "Spies Like Us" or "Mad Max 3".
Although it's based on Marco Parma's bestselling 1983 novel of the same name, the movie has nothing much to do with it. The director found the book "very ugly" and decided to keep only the title and the very idea of model murders in the Milan fashion scene.
Anna Galiena's debut.