Co-screenwriter Michael Brindley said in an interview with David Stratton in his book 'The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry' (1990): ''Women still come up to us and thank us for writing a film that means so much to them, it really did touch a lot of people.''
The film's director Steve Jodrell has said: ''No-one really wanted to touch it because they couldn't work out what it was about. It was not quite entertaining; it was a little bit too art-house; it was a message film, and yet Michael and Beverly Blenkinship had always designed the film as a kind of B grade drive-in movie. They did not want it to end up in an art-house circuit. They wanted it to be an action flick that had some things to say in it, so that they get to the kind of demographic that they were appealing to, which was young teenagers and people in their twenties - and actually hoping the girls would drag the men along and, therefore, get across what they wanted to say.''
When the film was released in the United States the picture was at times screening at the same time as 'The Accused' (1988) which was a movie examining the same subject matter. The 'Oz Movies' website states that ''it happened to hit some screens around the same time as the Jodie Foster rape film, The Accused''.
Co-screenwriter Beverley Blankenship conceived the film as subverting the paradigm of the Australian movie 'Mad Max' (1979) and starring instead a woman on a motor-cycle who wears a black leather jacket.
The make and model of Asta Cadell (Deborra-Lee Furness)'s motor-cycle was a Suzuki Katana 750.