In fact, DEADLY SPAWN was eventually retitled to cash in on that, was it not?
After the distributor was disappointed with the first week’s box office, they changed the title. The second week it was suddenly RETURN OF THE ALIENS! I guess they were hoping someone might mistake it for a sequel to ALIEN… Which no one would ever mistake it for (laughs)! No problem there (laughs)! You said earlier that the monster was good, you had something going for you. Well, the other thing you had going for you was an incredibly cool and, now, pretty famous movie poster by Tim Hildebrandt, who had just done the STAR WARS poster. I just watched ED WOOD on DVD again, and the guy who hired Ed to make GLEN OR GLENDA says to him, “Give me a poster and a title and I can sell it in Europe!” It really almost didn’t matter what the film was in certain venues if the poster’s good. And we not only had a poster that had a lot of impact and effectiveness, but it was by a name who, at that point, was very big. And is still big. Tim Hildebrandt, who was one half of the Brothers Hildebrandt, the
