Trivia

The scene where Ice (Joshua Sinclair) wipes out his motorcycle was a real, unscripted accident.

During the meeting scene between the Riders and Tigers near the Manhattan Bridge with the World Trade Center in background, the drummers seen playing were not originally scripted. The band was present in the area during the day of shooting, so director Enzo G. Castellari included them in the scene, giving no explanation as to why they were there.

This was Vic Morrow's last completed film before his unfortunate on-set death while filming Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). In an eerily prescient scene that foreshadows his tragic death, Murrow's superior says to him, "If you don't get the girl by 11 o'clock tomorrow, I'll have your head!" Morrow's character replies, "We'll fly her in - in a helicopter."

The Iron Men gang were played by professional television dancers.

According to an article in "Coming Attractions" magazine, the movie was conceived when producer Fabrizio De Angelis missed a subway train stop for his Manhattan hotel and ended up in the South Bronx--similar to the plot of the novel and film The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)--which at the time was a notoriously dangerous area, infested by street gangs, drug addicts, and just about every type of criminal there was. Entire blocks of the neighborhood had been reduced to rubble by fires, both accidental and deliberately set. De Angelis walked through the area and was both enthralled and repelled by the devastation he saw and the assortment of derelicts, criminals and obvious mental cases. Soon he was confronted by thugs with switchblades and quickly made his escape. He got back to his hotel in one piece, and the experience inspired this film.

Enzo G. Castellari: the Vice President.