Anecdotes

Although previous versions had popular doo-wop songs on the soundtrack, for the seven-minute, 1979 version of this film, Anger decided to use the catchy but hyper-obscure 1976 song "It Came in the Night" by the UK band A Raincoat. The song was released as a single only and is not on the only A Raincoat album "Digalongamacs". It was written by band leader Andy Arthurs and was used in the film without his knowledge or permission.

Shot over a period of four weeks in Jean-Pierre Melville's studio using students from the Marcel Marceau School of Mime.

Kenneth Anger built his set in perspective to give the feeling of greater size.

Kenneth Anger's big influence for the film was the visual styling of Josef von Sternberg.

Electronic music band Rabbit in the Moon got their name from this film.