This film is considered an "Ozploitation" (Australian exploitation) picture. The category is used for post-1971 low-budget comedy, horror, and action films many of which had an R (18+) rating classification and this includes 'Centrespread'. The Australian DVD release of 'Centrespread' (1981) has on the front cover of the slick the ''Ozploitation Classics'' series logo.
An exchange of dialogue that begins with "Don't you ever feel attracted to the girls you photograph?" was sampled and used in a song, "Potato Junkie," on the Irish metal band Therapy?'s 1992 album "Pleasure Death." The dialogue has often been erroneously attributed to other movies such as Pretty Baby (1978) and Blow Up (1966).
The film was shot on 16mm film stock and then blown-up to 35mm for the printed release format.
Lead actor Paul Trahair left acting to become a high school drama teacher
One of two adult "R-rated" (for audiences 18+ years and over) films which shot at the studios of the South Australian Film Corporation at Norwood in Adelaide, South Australia during the very early 1980s, with both of the movies debuting theatrically in 1981. The pictures are 'Centrespread' (1981) and 'Pacific Banana' (1981).