Filmed in ten days in October 1975 for less than $60,000. Dick Miller's character is named for his character in A Bucket of Blood (1959). The plot was inspired by the film The Death Kiss (1932), which directors Joe Dante and Allan Arkush happened to catch on television one night. The name Patrick Hobby is a reference to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Pat Hobby stories (concerning a hack writer). Rico's line, "Is this the end of Rico?" is Edward G. Robinson's last line in Little Caesa ...[Read Story ]