- Genre Turning Point: As noted on the main page, this film marked the change from fantastical Mad Scientist horror toward the use of more realistic Serial Killer-type evil as villains.
- Retroactive Recognition:
- Mike Farrell, better known as B.J. Hunnicutt on M*A*S*H, can be glimpsed as one of Thompson's sniper victims. (He's the man who gets gunned down while inside a phone booth at the drive-in.)
- More of an indirect example, but a young Jack Nicholson appears alongside Boris Karloff in footage from Roger Corman's 1963 film The Terror, seen during the opening credits and again during the climax at the drive-in.
- Vindicated by History: Not a big box office hit when it was released, too soon after the Whitman shootings and just as Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, the film has been re-assessed as a classic film, an excellent capper to Boris Karloff's career, and a chilling statement on the banal brutality of the real world.
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