Legend has it that this film was actually passed off as a new Ingmar Bergman film in some theaters, likely based on its title and thematic similarities to the Swedish director's classics Wild Strawberries (1957) and The Seventh Seal (1957). Director Larry Buchanan described this film as a "mortality fantasy, intensely romantic with a grim edge to it, such as I imagined Bergman might have done had he been a Texan."