Dude, I LOVED that movie, the dude who shot the little girl used to be my AIM avatar.
The theme was sampled for "Megablast" by Bomb The Bass. ^___^
Yea the theme music totally kicked ass,esp for the 70ies. It holds up well today easily. I hated the remake,it sucked. This movie is pure classic. It's mix of western/ realistic horror action really pulls you in.
This is actually something that could easily really happen in any ghetto city,and I think thats part of its strong horror appeal,since it
could actually happen.
People really don't like to think about that kinda stuff,it scares them deep down. Part of the reason why I think rentals in the 80ies and early 90ies where I lived wouldn't carry it was because of the large amount of crime,gang activity we had going on in LR and NLR.
Most of the gangs had AK47s,M16s,Uzis,anything the pawns would carry the gangs could get to,so most of the gangs were better armed then even the NLR/LR Swat units. Because of this eventually alot of pawn shops that dealt in weaponry got busted and shut down.