The film features performances by Richard Hell, Talking Heads, Television, Patti Smith, and Wayne County.

Rolling Stone named it number 6 on its list of 25 Greatest Punk Rock Movies of All Time.

[3] He is also associated with the birth of No Wave Cinema due to films such as The Foreigner (1978), featuring Eric Mitchell, Debbie Harry, Anya Phillips; and Subway Riders (1981),[4] starring Susan Tyrrell, Robbie Coltrane, and Cookie Mueller.

He is part of the Remodernist film movement, which he described as the next development of Postmodernism and the transformation of existing cultural features, but "using the technology and the sensibility of contemporary rather than nostalgia".

Thereafter, Král billed himself as the director of the film, demoting Poe to co-editor; Král also acquired ownership, for $10 each, of Poe's films Unmade Beds, The Foreigner, Subway Riders, and Empire II.