The acronym on the film can read FARTS and stood for "Film Audiovisual Radio and Television School". This is actually a spoof anagram parody of the real life AFTRS which stands for the "Australian Film, Television and Radio School".
The gruesome mask that the Make-Up Effects (MEG) team devised took up to four and a half-hours to glue on to
the actor and required more than a dozen versions. Scarman's mask was moulded to
Frank Roberts' head by first taking a bust impression, and later embellished with
fine detail and teeth, that were glued in one by one. It meant the mask could not be
worn by any other actor.
The production notes for the film claimed that this movie "blends special effects, prosthetics and stunts to create a film unlike any other
made in Australia" adding that "the firm Make-Up Effects Group, whose work has been used in
films such as 'The Matrix' (1999), designed the prosthetics, and Peter Stubbs and his company
Filmtrix, created the special effects."
One of two South Australian movies filmed in South Australia featuring singer-actress Kylie Minogue. The pictures are Cut (2000) and Sample People (2000). Both titles debuted in the year 2000 and were both shot around the same time.
Production Designer Steven Jones-Evans dug around in libraries as part of his research for the film,
finding old photos of antique garden shears. He was able to design "some very strange
looking implements of destruction!. The shears, the main weapon in the movie, had to be
able to slice heads off, sever limbs, cut off a finger...working on the weapons was fun!".