The film’s troubled production adds to its mystique. Director Lothar von Seefeld reportedly wrote the screenplay in 22 days. The budget was precisely 22,000 Deutsche Marks. Lead actress Jutta Speidel was 22 years old during filming. The production notebooks, auctioned in 2018 by a private collector, contained exactly 22 journal entries detailing von Seefeld's breakdown, in which he began to believe that the child actors were actually "possessed by the spirit of the game."
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The film has also become a staple of midnight movie screenings, with fans gathering to experience its notorious "girls in a swimming pool" scene, which has become a kind of urban legend among fans of extreme cinema. The film’s troubled production adds to its mystique