One of the nurses in the movie was played by Cassandra Peterson, She later became famous for portraying 'Elvira: Mistress of the Dark' and portrayed Elvira for the first time in a 1982 episode of 'New Wave Theatre' - the same year that this cinema movie debuted.
In this film, where she was billed as ''Busty Nurse'', she was virtually unrecognizable as her face was mostly hidden by a surgical mask. The movie has been notable for a scene in the operating theatre where her right breast is exposed.
The name of the modern medical facility was ''Our Lady of Pain and Suffering Hospital''.
The movie in the USA was a big hit on late night cable television during the 1980s. Since then it has developed a a bit of a cult following and today can now be classified as a ''cult movie''.
Some films of this era in Hollywood had reputation of being ''coke movies'' where cocaine was used on the set. Because of this movie's cocaine drug taking subject matter there was at least some small perception that this picture was one of these ''coke movies''.
The name of the band that played at the Madame Woo Woo night-club was ''The Shitty Rainbows''.
Barret Oliver: The future child star of the 1980s as a boy in a supermarket who gets an egg smashed on his head.