The film is based on true events that happened to the lead actress Rodleen Getsic, she even said that she has been abducted in the past more times than once.
Rated "child approved" when released in Sweden.
Refused for classification by the BBFC on the grounds that it contained too much sexual violence: (and yet) "What is the purpose of art censorship? Is it to protect society from deviant behaviors? Theater, cinema, television, video games - all are subject to showing blood, gore, sex, violence, and death. Rapists and murderers do not need encouragement. Personal human conduct is an individual reflection of one's own conditions." [lead actress Getsic herself in her own 'Monsterpiece', explanation: 8.13.]
The trucker's torture chamber in rear of his truck is not so far fetched; as an example, a long-haul trucker in real life had constructed such a torture chamber in the rear of his semi: Robert Ben Rhoades, known as the 'Truck-Stop Killer', over at least 15 years, kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed as many as 50 suspected victims. He was convicted of such on at least two couples in 1989 and 1990 (in Illinois and Texas). Thereby, for the premise of this film - and in real life: "It is tempting to dismiss Rhoades as an isolated case, a one-off sociopath. But in his book 'Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers', Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant to the FBI, "denies readers that comfort. On the contrary, it argues, Rhodes {and those like depicted in this film] is part of a wider sociological phenomenon hiding in plain sight .. as he himself was floored to learn of at least 850 murders along America's highways over the past few decades. More than 200 cases remain active and unsolved; the bureau has a list of about 450 suspects." [UK Guardian newspaper review; 6.24.]
Shot in 13 days.