Although the film credits "Meredith Lucas" and "Susan Dicken" as director and writers, the film was written and directed by MIchael A. Lucas, who in an interview later claimed to have used women pseudonyms "in hopes that [the film] would be taken as a sufficiently serious, though rather muddled, feminist statement. I was hoping that so doing might make distribution to the art house circuit viable: even though playing the St. Francis Cinema on Market Street would have been personally gratifying, I knew that the production values I could afford would be unacceptable to the action/horror/exploitation houses, and that the only way this would ever get seen was as an indie/art movie."
Lucas originally intended to have a friend play the part of Meredith for public appearances and shot some "making of" promo footage but later decided to spread a rumor that she had committed suicide because having someone impersonate his non-existent sister "wound up being seeming like too much trouble when the film wasn't getting any real distribution, so I went with the despondent director's suicide so that it wouldn't be necessary to produce her."
