This movie's screenwriter, Rob George, on the film's audio commentary, said of this film: "The original source of the idea for me was driving back from Sydney to Adelaide one night, we left about midnight, and around about West Wyalong we got taunted by some guy who kept driving right up behind us ... just sitting a foot or two behind the back of our ute and then he'd pass us and go up and come back on the other side of the road and play chicken with us. It was really distressing".
Lead actress Cassandra Delaney spent about three months preparing for this picture and her central character role of Jessica. This included a three month program of physical exercise including jogging and gym workouts. Stunt Coordinator Glenn Boswell also trained Delaney in horse-riding and trick-car driving.
'The Beast' tray-truck Ford F100 vehicle was custom engineered by Mike Loader and had more than one tricky design problem. Loader said in the film's press kit: "The machine looks and is dangerous but the fact that an up and coming young Australian actress [Cassandra Delaney] has to be roped on the front of it and taken for a ride through the bush without doing herself an injury called for strategic placement of the huge chrome horns".
Sound in the sequence where Jessica is tied to the front bull-bars of the outback tray-truck 'The Beast' were sourced from the noise monkeys made at the Adelaide Zoo which were recorded there for the soundtrack.
According to actress Cassandra Delaney in the DVD special bonus feature 'Extended Interview with Cassandra Delaney from 'Not Quite Hollywood' (2018)', her topless nudity in the movie was not scripted, and that director Mario Andreacchio asked permission whether she would be willing to do the nude shots. Moreover, Delaney states that these nude scenes were only added for the home video release, and were not apparently included in the original theatrical version.
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