 According to director Rusty Lemorande (qv), only the first eight  minutes of this film were directed by him. The rest of it is the  sequel to the Kathy Ireland (qv) vehicle  _Alien from L.A. (1988)_ (qv) directed by Albert Pyun (qv), which  was tacked on by the producers and renamed "Journey to the Center of  the Earth" in order to fulfill contracts with foreign distributors.