Shooting for this film started in Mendocino, California in late 1973 as "God Bless Grandma and Grandpa", under the direction of Curtis Hanson, who assumed the pseudonym "Edward Collins" and was, at one time, set to star Zalman King. Somewhere along the way, King dropped out and two additional directors, Larry Spiegel and Peter S. Traynor, stepped in. The film's title went from "God Bless Grandma and Grandpa" to "God Bless Dr. Shagetz", then "God Damn Dr. Shagetz", and finally just plain "Dr. Shagetz". It received a very limited theatrical release sometime in the late 1970s and then faded into complete obscurity until the mid-1980s (by which time some of its actors, such as Hope Summers, were already dead) when producer Mardi Rustam filmed new scenes for it, including some nude scenes with Lynda Wiesmeier, and it was re-titled "Evil Town" along with getting a 1985 copyright statement. By 1987, it had already found its way to home video.
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