As soon as director Katt Shea completed the stripper/vampire movie Dance of the Damned (1989), producer Roger Corman told Shea they had five days before they had to tear down the strip club set built for that movie and he didn't want to waste it. So he said he wanted her to film a sequel to her first film Stripped to Kill (1987) within that time. That meant Shea had to come up with a plot and cast the thing over a single weekend and rush into production. She said in an interview that it drove her insane. She was writing it as they went along. Then she threatened to take her name off of it after Corman kept telling her to "add more boobs" and re-edited everything (which she said he did on all the films she made for him). She's amazed when people tell her they love this movie because she has no idea why.
Katt Shea said Quentin Tarantino told her he's a big fan of this film.
Roger Corman cast Maria Ford in her first film Dance of the Damned (1989), also directed by Katt Shea. After seeing dailies of her in it, he recognized her star power and told Shea they needed to write another film for her to star in, and to make sure it included more scenes of her nude.
Maria Ford studied dance in high school but never had lessons in strip dancing. So they hired real strippers who took her to clubs and taught her how to do it. She got so good at it that producer Roger Corman started putting her in several other stripper-related movies.
Debra Lamb also appeared in Stripped to Kill (1987), but in a smaller role as a nude dancer and different character.