The movie features a significant amount of red tint photography. Even the movie's film poster featured a strong red color component. The color red motif connects with the film's adult sexual themes and references the film 's "Red Light" district's prostitutes and seedy sex. Similary, movie poster artwork for the later Clint Eastwood movie Blood Work (2002) also featured red tint over black print, but this time, the red color symbolized the color of blood.
The film featured a serial killer who was a former New Orleans police officer who was charged for sexual assault - it was until the mid-1990s where the department was under the oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice concerning police corruption and misconduct.
The narrow streets of New Orleans produced problems for the production particularly in the city's French Quarter where the thin streets made it difficult for production trucks to mobilize.
Wes Block: Twenty-eight years ago I borrowed 40 dollars from my father, packed up an old, beat up suitcase, took a bus and came here. I was seventeen at the time. While I walked through the French Quarter, I looked out over the Mississippi and swore I'd never leave.