 Michele Soavi, who played a biker in the film, went on to become a successful Italian horror film director in his own right.D'Amato later produced Soavi's first directorial effort ""Stage Fright" (1987 film)", which he said was "...out of all the films I produced, my favorite, and Soavi is the most talented out of all the young directors I've launched...I think very highly of him.