The budget and shooting schedule for was slashed by the studio one month before principal photography was set to begin. Rather than abandon the green lighted film, director Alan Spencer drew from his background in TV, forged ahead and completed the movie in thirty days.
The Columbia Pictures studio re-packaged the picture to target the film at a younger audience demographic. They did this by replacing some of the film's 1960s Henry Mancini and Nat 'King' Cole music with contemporary rock numbers.
Alan Spencer, the pic's writer-director, has felt contemptuous of this movie, due to his loss of artistic control of the film.
Many movie posters for the film featured a blurb that read: "More basic than any instinct. More fatal than any attraction. More motion than any picture. HEXED. A comedy about sex, violence, and other family values". Some home video sleeves replaced the third stanza with "more wild than any orchid".
Debut film as a director for Alan Spencer. This cinema movie remains the first and only ever theatrical feature film directed by Spencer.