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Best DVDBluRay Classic Film Release | 2016
Budget 250,000 USD
To create the effect of being able to see through a building, the director filmed the building while it was under construction.
This film originally had a five-minute prologue about the human senses. This prologue was removed from all post-theatrical prints of the film, and may have been removed from some of the theatrical release prints. This reduced the running time to 79 minutes. The footage can be found on the Second Sight Blu Ray.
The final chase scene involving Ray Milland's erratic driving took place on Soledad Canyon Road between the cities of Santa Clarita and Acton in California--the same place where nearly the entire film Duel (1971) was filmed.
Roger Corman has said the idea for the film was his. It was originally about a scientist, then he felt that was "too obvious" so he changed the protagonist to be "a jazz musician who had taken too much drugs, and I get into about four or five pages, and I thought, 'You know, I don't like this idea,' and so I threw the whole thing out, and started back and went back with the scientist, which was the original idea."
Roger Corman described the film's success, which was shot in three weeks on a budget of under $300,000, as a miracle. Notable for its use of special effects to portray Dr. Xavier's greatly enhanced vision, the film's effects, though crude by today's standards, are still effective in conveying to the audience the protagonist's bizarre viewpoint.
"Dr. Diane Fairfax: What do you see? Dr. James Xavier: The city... as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead."
"Dr. James Xavier: I'm blind to all but a tenth of the universe. Dr. Sam Brant: My dear friend, only the gods see everything. Dr. James Xavier: My dear doctor, I'm closing in on the gods."
