Producer James Glenn Dudelson said he came up with this idea because he wanted to do a 1950s style sci-fi movie. He developed it for two years, but once it was getting made, the studio changed it completely. So he quit. He got paid and credit, but he wanted nothing to do with it.
Feature film debut of women's boxer Mia St. John.
Filmed in 1991.
Tracy Griffith and Michael J. Pollard had both previously co-starred in Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland (1989).