Though the film was co-produced by a West German production company and mostly shot in West Germany, it was never released theatrically there. Instead, it premiered straight to home video in the late 1980s.
The trailer for the U.S. release of this film by Cannon can be seen during the drive-in sequence in the film New Year's Evil (1980) from 1980 another Cannon release.
The department where Martin Hoffmann lives is the same department where Mr. and Mrs. Wardh live in The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971).
Sybil Danning stated in an interview for Arrow Video's Blu-ray release that she first saw it only in 2016, 44 years after its release.
This film opened in the US on 10/17/75 dubbed in English under the title "Blood Feast" and as the top half of a double feature with the horror anthology film Blood Bath (1975).