The film was made in 1972 and was initially unreleased until 1977 because one of its actresses sued over the use of nude scenes Watkins shot of her. Watkins did not even know the film ever made its way to the big screen until late 1979, when someone on the street recognized him as "the guy from that movie that was throwing animal guts around".
The original version entitled "The Cuckoo Clocks Of Hell" in reference to Kurt Vonnegut's book Mother Night. It allegedly ran around 175 minutes. The only remaining print of it in that form is rumored to be stored in a New York film lab.
Due to the use of pseudonyms by everyone involved and the low quality of cameras and film stock, rumors spread in New York's 42nd Street Grindhouse subculture that the film either actually depicted real murders, or that the film was the product of the Mexican mafia (owing to Roger Watkins pseudonym, "Janos", a municipality in the Mexican state of Chihuahua). The film's distributor encouraged the rumors, which resulted in the film's gaining notoriety via word of mouth.
This movie's cast and crew was primarily made up of students from the film and theater departments at the State University of New York at Oneonta, including girls who had no problem getting naked. Paul M. Jensen, who plays the blind man, was one of Roger Watkins's professors at SUNY Oneonta.
The score of this movie was made up of stock music purchased from an editing house in New York City.