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• Klaus Kinski took his role in this movie over an offer to appear in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) because he was offered more money.
  
  
• Tobe Hooper quit because of "creative differences". The DOP also quit for the same reason after ten days of shooting.
  
  
• Replacement director Piers Haggard thought the Black Mamba was the nicest person on the set
  
  
• Sterling Hayden's final acting role in a theatrical film.
  
  
• Final film of Rita Webb.
  
  
• Michael Gough's character, David Ball, is based on a real London Zoo Keeper who still lives in the UK (2006).
  
  
• Watch the credits. The snake leaves a little present for all who do so.
  
  
• At a party at Elaine's Restaurant in Manhattan celebrating the film's release, Klaus Kinski boasted how he and other members of the cast & crew had ganged up on Tobe Hooper a couple of weeks into the shoot to get him replaced; Piers Haggard took over.
  
  
• The first poster advertisements printed up for the film had Tobe Hooper credited as director, even though he would leave the film early in production.
  
  
• In the DVD commentary director Piers Haggard states that stars Oliver Reed and Klaus Kinski hated each other during production. Reed would constantly provoke Kinski until he would lose his temper.
  
  
• Director Piers Haggard says that none of the original footage Tobe Hooper shot is still in the film.
  
  
• Final cinema feature of Arnold Diamond.
  
  
• At least three cast members Tobe Hooper hired for this film he would finally get to work with on Lifeforce. John Forbes-Robertson, Peter Porteous and Nicholas Donnelly.
  
  

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