The Warped Ones films whose outlook made way for the Japanese pink film. In the film Tim Lucas noted antecedents and a possible influence to "the most hellbent characters" in the films of acclaimed director Quentin Tarantino's films and specifically to Stanley Kubrick's iconic "A Clockwork Orange" (1971). Lucas drew comparisons between "The Warped Ones"<nowiki>'</nowiki> main character Akira and "A Clockwork Orange"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Alex DeLarge, including their respective obsessions with hard jazz and the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, the former with a framed copy of Ornette Coleman's album "The Shape of Jazz to Come" next to his bed, the latter an engraving of
Murder in a Blue World bal du vaudou" and in the United States as "To Love, Perhaps to Die", with the latter title a closer translation of the Spanish. In the 1980s, Empire Video released the film on British VHS as "Clockwork Terror" in an attempt to sell it almost as a sequel to "A Clockwork Orange" and subsequent UK video and DVD releases were titled "Murder in a Blue World" in reference to the fictional Blue Drink featured in the film. In 1986, the film was released on British VHS by Empire Video as "Clockwork Terror" and again in 2001 by Pagan Films as