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1	* AbsurdlyShortProductionTime: The movie famously shot in just two days to get more use of sets built for ''Film/ABucketOfBlood'' before they were demolished.
2	* ActingForTwo: The screenwriter Charles B. Griffith performs as the robber and a screaming patient as well as provides the voice of Audrey Jr.
3	* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JackNicholson wanted to play Seymour and auditioned for the part, but lost to Jonathan Haze. He was instead cast as Wilbur Force.
4	* ChristmasRushed: There are competing stories for the reason why the product was so rushed. One legend says that Corman did it to win a bet that he couldn't complete a movie in that time. A more likely story colaborated by actor Mel Welles, is that Corman was trying to squeeze in one more film before a new law on actor residuals would take effect.
5	* ExecutiveMeddling: If it weren't for UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, this movie would have been about a chef murdering people and serving them in a restaurant.
6	* ProductionPosse: Jonathan Haze ([[Film/VikingWomenAndTheSeaSerpent He's a Grimold warrior!]]) and Dick Miller were Creator/RogerCorman regulars. Screenwriter Charles B. Griffin was also a frequent Corman collaborator.
7	* RecycledSet: Was filmed on leftover sets from ''Film/ABucketOfBlood''.
8	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
9	** Corman originally wanted this to be a detective movie. Seymour and his mother were to be called Irish and Iris Eye. Audrey would have been called "Oriole Olive" and Nancy Kulo was the most likely person to play her. Jonathan Haze was set to play a character called "Archie Aroma" and Mel Welle's would have played "Draco Cardala". Creator/JackNicholson would have played a guy called "Jocko".
10	** Charles B. Griffith's first script was about a vampire music critic, but Corman rejected it; he also wrote one about a salad chef who killed people and served them in his restaurant, but the Hays Office nixed this.
11	* WorkingTitle:
12	** Was produced under the title, ''The Passionate People Eater''.
13	** The vampire critic script was called ''Cardula'' and the murderer chef script was called ''Gluttony''.

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