The film plays with comedy horror conventions, when a drug dealer is pushed into the river and becomes a zombie.

The film was shot on location in and around New York City, especially Brooklyn, Fort Lee, Englewood, Tenafly, Riverside Park, and Rockland County.

[citation needed] The film's title track was recorded by the American band The Fleshtones, and the subsequent video was given rotation on MTV.

Other bands and artists appearing on the film's soundtrack include: The Del Fuegos, The dB's, The Dream Syndicate, Violent Femmes, The Waitresses, The Smithereens, Los Lobos, Alex Chilton and the Ben Vaughn Group.

Writing in the Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle called it an "irreverent amateur parody of high school romance films in the Sixteen Candles tradition.