The film was shot in 1960 and has a copyright date of 1961 but was not released until 1964.
The history of witchcraft given in the narration at the start of the movie is riddled with errors and bears very little resemblance to actual history. One of the more egregious errors is the claim that the Dark Ages followed the Middle Ages.
The film is often confused with another regional movie, also titled The Naked Witch, a lost film directed by Andy Milligan in New Jersey in 1967. Claude Alexander, director of the the 1961 version, notes in his DVD commentary that he succeeded in getting the distributor, Mishkin, to change the title of that later release to The Naked Temptress.
Shot in Luckenbach, Texas.
The film begins not with the first scene of the plot, but rather with a "lengthy narration about the history of witchcraft," dramatically voiced over by an uncredited Gary Owens.