Interior sound-stage studio sets in Montreal, Québec, Canada were built in an abandoned steel plant. This was a site which was already marked for demolition as it was scheduled for re-development as a condominium.
The film is a modern urban legend contemporary take on Edgar Rice Burrough's ''Tarzan'' story.
First starring role in a theatrical feature film of actor Rob Knepper.
In an early scene, Robert Davi's character is shown reading a GQ magazine with Arnold Schwarzenegger on the cover. Davi co-starred opposite Schwarzenegger in Raw Deal (1986).
The nicknames for ''cops'' and ''doctors'' were ''blue coats'' and ''white coats'' respectively.