David Tsubouchi, who appears here briefly as a Japanese porn dealer, later became a Minister in the Ontario provincial government. His appearance in this controversial film as a pornographer was exploited by the opposition.
David Cronenberg had to double James Woods for the scene in which Max Renn has a helmet put on his head because both were afraid to a point that he might be electrocuted by it.
The TV station "Civic TV" is patterned after City TV, a Toronto television station that showed soft-core porn as part of its late-night programming. One of Max Renn's partners is called "Moses," a reference to City TV founder Moses Znaimer.
The majority of the trailer was created with a Commodore 64 computer.