Ray Dennis Steckler was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1939.

Steckler is rumored to have directed the music video for "White Rabbit" by The Jefferson Airplane.

Steckler worked as an assistant cameraman on the Timothy Carey cult classic, The World's Greatest Sinner (1962).

While working on The World's Greatest Sinner, Steckler said that Carey threw a boa constrictor in with him while he was loading film for the camera in a closet.

Steckler also directed and appeared in the film Wild Guitar (1962, going by the name "Cash Flagg").

Steckler has gone by the following names in many of his films: Sven Christian, Sven Hellstrom, Harry Nixon, Michael J. Rogers, Michel J. Rogers, Wolfgang Schmidt, Cindy Lou Steckler, R.D. Steckler, Ray Steckler, and Cindy Lou Sutters.

Steckler used to own furniture stores in Las Vegas.

Ron Haydock had been the leader of a band from Chicago called The Boppers before moving to California.

Haydock was also editor of Fantastic Monsters magazine.

Before his death in 1977, Haydock was writing x-rated novels under the name "Vin Saxon". Some of the titles he wrote included Ape Rape, The Sex-A-Reenos, Animal Lust and Pagan Lesbians.

Steckler on how he makes movies: "Well, I just talk to the cast."

Steckler has control over all the video releases of his movies, except for The Incredibly Strange Creatures... (1964).

Steckler used to travel with his films and relied on old traveling movie show tactics, such as jumping out at people from behind the screen during the film. He stopped the practice after a gig near Sacramento where a movie goer actually shot him with a pellet gun.

The alter-ego of "Cash Flagg" was rumored to have come from Steckler's reputation for not taking checks from anyone for his work (he liked to be paid in cash only).

Harry Medved, author of The Golden Turkey Awards, didn't actually see Rat Pfink a Boo Boo but called it "the worst title of all time" in his book.

by Millie de Chirico

Sources:
DVD commentary and DVD interview by director Ray Dennis Steckler
IMDB.com
Psychotronic Magazine
Filmthreat.com
411mania.com
The Bad Movie Report
Re/Search: Incredibly Strange Films
Allmovieguide.com