Filmed and released within four months of when the actual teenage rioting occurred in November, 1966 on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
Originally produced for M-G-M, but then acquired and released by American International Pictures.
Mimsy Farmer, Gene Kirkwood and Laurie Mock worked on Hot Rods to Hell that same year. Meanwhile, Tim Rooney's brother, Mickey Rooney Jr., played the instrumental surf music in the end of the same picture.
The same year, Laurie Mock and Mimsy Farmer would act together in Hot Rods to Hell.
In Hot Rods From Hell, Laurie Mock is a good girl taunted by bad kids Mimsy Farmer and Gene Kirkwood, who ride together in a fast car. In this movie, Mimsy plays the good girl while Laurie and Gene are the experienced hippies who ride in a car together.