Most of the footage from Munkar's "orgy" is actually footage taken from the film Deathstalker (1983). This includes all sequences including the chained girl and the pig-faced warrior. It's most noticeable in some of the faraway shots where the throne is visible and it is clearly not Martin Kove sitting there.
The producers fired the first two directors after principal photography. Henry Crum was hired months later to re-edit, re-write and direct 45 pages of new material in seven days on location in the Crimea.
Child actor Yuri Danilchenko, who plays Wooby, can be seen unmasked as the Kitchen Boy who tries to steal the Chef's cake.
Scenes were filmed in historic castles in remote areas of the Crimea in southern Ukraine.