| 1 | * GenreTurningPoint: As noted on the main page, this film marked the change from fantastical MadScientist horror toward the use of more realistic SerialKiller-type evil as villains. |
| 2 | * RetroactiveRecognition: |
| 3 | ** Creator/MikeFarrell, better known as B.J. Hunnicutt on ''Series/{{MASH}}'', 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.) |
| 4 | ** More of an indirect example, but a young Creator/JackNicholson appears alongside Creator/BorisKarloff in footage from Creator/RogerCorman's 1963 film ''Film/TheTerror'', seen during the opening credits and again during the climax at the drive-in. |
| 5 | * VindicatedByHistory: Not a big box office hit when it was released, too soon after the Whitman shootings and just as UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr and UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy were assassinated, the film has been re-assessed as a classic film, an excellent capper to Creator/BorisKarloff's career, and a chilling statement on the banal brutality of the real world. |
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