The film was shot in two weeks on location in Hawaii, back-to-back with She Gods of Shark Reef. Samuel Arkoff of AIP has a small role in the movie.
The Cocoa Palms Hotel received an on screen credit in exchange for housing the films stars at a reduced rate.
The film was initially released as a double feature with Flesh and the Spur. It was re-released in 1960 under the title Thunder over Hawaii.
John Ireland, who still owed another film to Corman under a two-picture deal he had signed with the producer, was originally announced as male star.
Robert Wright Campbell's script was rewritten by Charles B. Griffith, who claimed Corman asked him to reuse his screenplay for Atlas (1960), Beast from Haunted Cave (1960) and Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961).