After the success of his feature film debut Secrets of Sex (1969), an anthology sex film that flirted with horror themes, Balch envisioned his second film as an out and out horror film and one with a continuous narrative.
Writing in the Monthly Film Bulletin (March 1970) Jan Dawson remarked of the cuts “ paradoxically, the bowdlerized version of the film moves closer to pornography than the version from which its audience is being protected. …its sad that censorship should function against its own long term purpose and re-enforce the man-in-the-mac’s sexual furtiveness by denying him the chance to view sex irreverently.”
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Five writers are credited with the script, although several other people, including Brion Gysin and Ian Cullen (writer of Cruel Passion (1977) and husband of Yvonne Quenet, who plays Mary-Claire in the film) also claimed to have worked on the writing.
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