In the late nineties an Icelandic sausage company attached VHS copies of a few Icelandic movies to pack of ten sausages, Remote Control being one of those movies. Subsequently the movie gained a cult status in Iceland.
Óskar Jónasson, writer and director, originally intended to make an action movie. However while writing the script he realised it could never be taken seriously and decided to change it to a comedy.
Although Orri (Sigurjón Kjartansson) is a fictional character his band was a real one called Ham. That band, featuring Sigurjón on guitar and vocals, was popular in Iceland in early nineties.
The Icelandic title is, literally, in English, "Sodom Reykjavik"