The idea behind this film was from the producer Dave Darby. His own daughter was named Lisa and he wanted a film to begin with a character named Lisa seen in a casket.
After his first film The Last House on Dead End Street (1977), an R-rated horror film that later became a cult favorite, failed because of being mishandled by distributors, director Roger Watkins turned to making hardcore pornography scene to support his family. Over the next decade, starting with this movie, Watkins made a series of bleak, deeply un-erotic porn films, and, despite his vocal distaste for the genre, showed a clear artistic ambition that often overcame the disreputable mode of filmmaking.