Kathy Christopherson's debut.
After directing several ultra low budget exploitation films for Roger Corman, Katt Shea was excited to direct Poison Ivy (1992), which had a much bigger budget, for New Line. She was very proud of it and hoped it would lead to bigger opportunities, but it didn't. For years, Shea met with every producer and studio imaginable. Sometimes they would pay her to write something for them or re-write something they already had. Nothing ever moved past that. It got to the point that her agent even told her to cut her hair so as to seem "more masculine" and thus more hirable as a director. That didn't work either. She ended up going back to work for Corman in 1996 to make Last Exit to Earth. She said in an interview, "The thing that was hard about going back is just the lack of money and the struggle. People have no idea the miracles that were created on nothing." She didn't get another directing offer until The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999).