 The film was shopped around outside the hands of any of the creators, and the VHS released that cropped up from a company called SBM of Chatsworth, California in 1991 was not authorized, and Robins, who subsequently acquired the rights to the film, dislikes the artwork.The packaging compares the film to David Cronenberg's The Fly and Joe Dante's "Gremlins".Unlike Dante, the film is more concerned with social comedy than referential comedy.