The cast credits (shown above a wintry Alaska blizzard scene) - with only technical and production categories, uniquely excluded any mention of the acting cast members (a group of mostly unknown performers).As he drives by a cemetery, he reveals that he is a serial killer on an earthly mission who receives divine inspirations o first marry, and then murder and rob vain and wicked women (usually rich lonely widows who do not see the menacing perversity in him):Well now, what""s it to be Lord? Another widow? How many has it been? Six? Twelve? I disremember.The camera zooms in for a gigantic close-up of the severed ear and descends slowly into the disembodied, dirty ear, as if entering a conduit o probe into its depths (like spiraling into a conch shell or into a brain), accompanied by a loud roaring sound on the soundtrack - a visual clue to the impact of sounds and aural observation.With a production budget of $1.7 million, and box-office gross receipts of $9 million (domestic).This was the only film of the original five that was released without a pre-title sequence or prologue.