The organ music heard in Wicked, Wicked is from the original sheet music score that was played live during showings of the silent horror classic The Phantom of the Opera (1925).

Taglines for the film's promotion were:
"See the hunter, see the hunted - both at the same time!"
"No glasses - All You Need Are Your Eyes!"
&
"Twice the tension! Twice the terror!"

The Hotel del Coronado, which is identified as The Grand View Hotel in Wicked, Wicked, is a historic seaside resort which first opened its doors in 1888 and has played host to such famous celebrities and dignitaries as Charles Lindbergh, the Prince of Wales, Babe Ruth, Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe. According to legend, the Victorian structure is haunted by the ghost of a beautiful young woman, Kate Morgan, who checked in on November 25, 1892 and died under mysterious circumstances. The Coronado has been refurbished since the making of Wicked, Wicked and is available for book. Here is the web site link - http://www.hoteldel.com/about/history.cfm

Director Richard L. Bare is probably best known for helming the famous Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man" and for more than 170 episodes of Green Acres, which he hopes to revive. He is also the author of a memoir, Confessions of a Hollywood Director.

Set decorator Charles Pierce had already launched his own directorial debut in 1972 with the surprise hit, The Legend of Boggy Creek. He continued to work as set decorator on films such as Coffy (1973) and Black Belt Jones (1974) while directing his own exploitation films (The Town That Dreaded Sundown [1976], The Evictors [1979]).

Tiffany Bolling, who plays Lisa James in Wicked, Wicked, made her film debut in an uncredited minor role in Tony Rome (1967) starring Frank Sinatra.

Ms. Bolling was an extremely busy actress during the seventies, appearing in numerous TV shows (Marcus Welby, M.D., Ironside, Medical Center) and B-movies, many of which have since become cult favorites such as Bonnie's Kids (1973), The Candy Snatchers (1973), a sick, twisted tale of three kidnappers and their hostage who is buried alive in a coffin, The Centerfold Girls (1974), and Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), in which she played an entomologist to William Shatner's veterinarian.

The last film Bolling appeared in was a low-budget sci-fi thriller in 1996 entitled Visions.

David Bailey, who plays Rick Stewart in Wicked, Wicked, was primarily a stage and television actor who was best known for his recurring role in the soap opera Another World. His film appearances were rare and included the spaghetti Western, 7 Women for the MacGregors (1967), Change of Mind (1969), in which a black man receives a brain transplant from a white man, and The Believer (2001) starring Ryan Gosling as a Jew who becomes an anti-Semitic skinhead.

David Bailey died in November 2004 in an accidental drowning in his apartment pool in Los Angeles.

Wicked, Wicked was the feature film debut of Randolph Roberts who played the psychotic killer. Most of his subsequent work has been in minor supporting roles in television series such as Happy Days, Police Woman and The A-Team.

The supporting cast of Wicked, Wicked includes Diane McBain, Arthur O'Connell, Scott Brady, Madeleine Sherwood and former teenage heartthrob Edd Byrnes who created a sensation as a hipster known as "Kookie" on the TV detective series, 77 Sunset Strip. He even recorded a song with Connie Stevens - "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb" - that became a top 40 hit. Despite a promising film career that included Marjorie Morningstar (1958), Up Periscope (1959) and Roger Corman's The Secret Invasion (1964), Byrnes was working almost exclusively in television by the time he made Wicked, Wicked.

Diane McBain was a popular ingénue at Warner Brothers during the early sixties, appearing in such films as Parrish (1961) and Claudelle Inglish (1961) as well as hit TV shows such as Surfside 6 and Hawaiian Eye. She is barely recognizable in her brief cameo as a murder victim in Wicked, Wicked.

Two-time Oscar nominee for Best Supporting Actor Arthur O'Connell (for Picnic [1955] and Anatomy of a Murder [1959]) had just completed The Poseidon Adventure (1972) when he took the relatively minor role of Mr. Fenley in Wicked, Wicked.

The younger brother of actor Lawrence Tierney, Scott Brady enjoyed leading man status in B-movies until the mid-sixties when he began appearing in supporting roles in exploitation films such as The Road Hustlers (1968), The Mighty Gorga (1969), Nightmare in Wax (1969) and Satan's Sadists (1969). His total screen time in Wicked, Wicked is probably less than five minutes but he does figure prominently in a surprising death scene which he prompts with the sarcastic retort to a suspect, "Go ahead and jump."

Madeleine Sherwood, who broadly overplays her role as the pathetic hotel tenant in Wicked, Wicked, is probably best known for her performance as the obnoxious Mae Flynn Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and as the Mother Superior in the TV series, The Flying Nun.

by Jeff Stafford