 Set in New York City, the film was shot on location in Manhattan and features footage of Times Square.Author and film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film one and a half out of four stars, calling it "sleazy", and "a waste of talent".It has gone on to develop a cult status among film students for its exploration of voyeurism, pornography as instigator of sex crimes, arson, masturbation, child abuse, transvestism, loneliness, and lesbianism in a time when American and British films usually kept these concerns at a sanitary distance.