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Budget 3,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 216,166 USD
This was Jack Albertson's final theatrical film (although he filmed another made-for-television movie the same year he died). In poor health, and suffering from cancer all through filming, Albertson passed away a few months after this movie's release. He nonetheless lived long enough to see it at its world premiere in Hollywood, in which he attended in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank and mask.
Stan Winston's special effects went beyond creating gore for the film. The figure in the full body cast lying in George LeMoyne's hospital bed was a mechanical dummy built by Winston. The life-like detail and elaborate movements the dummy was rigged to make gives the appearance that its a real person and makes the infamous needle-eye stab all the more startling.
Director Gary Sherman originally intended this movie to be a dark comedy.
Writer/producer Ronald Shusett described the impact of the reconstruction scene, "We see a woman's face being reconstructed by the mad doctor. We see an empty eye socket, and then we see him put in an eyeball. In a moment she sits up, blinks, and turns around; it's obvious, she is not a dummy, nor did she have a glass eye. The effect is startling because of the way it's been filmed, it's impossible to tell how it was done. Actually, Stan made a very elaborate dummy of the girl from a new, very fleshy material. In fact, we were often fooled when we came in the room as to whether it was a dummy under those sheets. Anyway, we used that dummy and without a dissolve, we made a switch to the real girl. For the briefest moment, the doctor lifts his elbow to get something and it covers the audience's view of the girl on the table. But they are so interested in what he is doing they don't even notice for a few seconds, they are not able to see the girl. In that period of time, we moved the dummy just out of camera range and substituted the real person. If you think this sort of thing is easy to do, I can tell you it's not: we shot that scene 17 times to get it right!"
Gary Sherman intentionally chose foggy weather conditions, in which to film, while on-location in California. The film's setting is suppose to be Maine, and the locations looked most like northern New England when the weather was foggy. In addition, Sherman liked the ominous mood the gloomy weather created.
"Janet Gillis: SPOILER: Dan, I'm dead! Please bury me!"
"Harry: I was just telling these guys about that accident last night. Find out who that guy was? Dan Gillis: Not a thing. No ID. No license plates. No nothing. Ernie: Dan, old buddy, with that fancy salary the city of Potters Bluff pays you, and the amount of money the state spends getting you educated, you ought to be able to find some clues. Herman: If you can't solve a traffic accident, what are you gonna do if a crime happens? Harry: Now boys, don't be riding Danny too hard. He's out to lead this town. We're lucky to have him. A Masters Degree in Criminology. Big cities fighting over him, and he comes back to his old home town to help us poor folks out."
