Trivia

The production shoot on this movie went for five and a half weeks.

First theatrical feature film for actor John Waters who had previously worked in television.

This movie was actor John Waters' first of five theatrical films in three years. The others were The Rollicking Adventures of Eliza Fraser (1976), Summerfield (1977), The Getting of Wisdom (1977) and Weekend of Shadows (1978).

During scenes at the local picture-house, posters of A Clockwork Orange (1971) adorn the theater but based on what the characters view and what is mentioned as showing, A Clockwork Orange (1971) is not a film that is actually playing at that cinema.

This film is one of two Australian movies made during the mid 1970s and early 1980s that featured as its storyline the murder by a serial killer of women in rural Australia. The other film was Roadgames (1981).

Delvene Delaney: As a Janine Talbort, a hitchhiker.