Vivian Schilling said she wrote the script without nudity. The director, producers, investors, and even the crew kept pressuring her to be get totally nude in the bathroom scene when she is watched as she undresses. She refused, saying it wasn't necessary. She said she was given a lot of hell over not doing it, and was told the film wouldn't sell because of it.
The P.A. announcements in the opening scene are taken from Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime album.
The TV news presenter (or news anchor) is John Edd Thompson. Before he retired in 2009, he was the chief meteorologist for WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama, where the film was made.