All the actors playing Finnish natives were actually Australian, and had to learn the Finnish language phonetically.
Screenwriter Robert Benjamin has stated that he initially came up with the idea while traveling, and noticing a family of foreigners at the airport staring at him oddly, while whispering in their native language. Naturally, he assumed they were planning to kidnap and eat him, and so he began thinking of all the things he would do if he woke up in some dark basement. He wrote the outline for the film at the gate while waiting for his flight.
The dashboard hula doll in the Helsinki Taxi only has one leg.
Shot on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia.
The first of a planned trilogy.