The shipwreck partially buried in the desert appears to be the wreck of the Eduard Bohlen, a cargo ship that wrecked off Namibia's Skeleton Coast in 1909.
The movie has oft been likened to Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981). This movie's Composer, Brian May, scored Mad Max (1979) and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981).
Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi appeared in Next of Kin (1989), Letters from a Killer (1998), and One Last Dance (2003). They also worked on Grandview, U.S.A. (1984).
The film was a major flop at the box office.