[2] Arkoff originally wanted to call the series Raging Hormones, but Showtime decided on Rebel Highway instead.

[4] Each director was given a $1.3 million budget and 12 days to shoot it with a cast of young, up and coming actors and actresses.

The soundtrack featured contemporary artists covering classic songs from the 1950s.

In his review for Entertainment Weekly, Ken Tucker wrote, "It is the whimsical notion behind the Rebel Highway series to take a group of mostly grade-D exploitation films from the '50s and remake them, with good actors and directors, in the '90s".

[5] In his review for the Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote that the series "is at best a collection of offbeat so-called B-films, though given the state of American movies at the moment this is a much more sizable achievement than it might at first appear–especially considering that the whole system that once supported B-films no longer exists".