Introduced as a rare category before the categories; the hosts suspect they picked the same anecdote, given the film was made for $60,000 in 100-degree Texas heat.
After getting the grandfather's old-age makeup, John Dugan would not repeat the five-hour process, so his scenes, mostly the dinner scene, were shot over the next 30 hours in summer heat in a room of dead animals and rotting food with no air conditioning and blackout curtains; the stench made people pass out and go outside to puke.
Edwin Neal, who played the hitchhiker, called filming that scene the worst time of his life, worse than being in Vietnam with people trying to kill him; a host compares being up 24 hours after an early flight back from Boston, and the shoot went six hours past that.
Marilyn Burns was tied up the entire time, screaming while being mocked, and the cast got paid about 150 bucks; the 16 millimeter cameras needed so much light that interior scenes generated extra heat.
