[The film""s story was based on a real-life crime in March of 1927 perpetrated by married Queens, NY housewife Ruth (Brown) Snyder and her lover, a 32 year-old corset salesman Judd Gray.He commanded his thugs, who were outside unloading a metal crate (containing a missile launcher) from a van (marked with bullet holes), to "modify it, and attach it to the stern" of the yacht (although the instructions were in Russian).To prevent any further harm, Ash was able to hack and dismember Ed with an axe, producing gobs of green slime.To be fully prepared to capture Freddy, the resourceful Nancy set up booby raps in her house:she filed a hole in a lightbulb, wrapped wire around two thumbtacks stuck inside the pinchers of a wooden clothespin and then inserted a life-saver candy and unspooled the wire across the living room floor to function as a trip-wire; she also poured gunpowder into the opening in the lightbulb and then screwed the lightbulb back into a floor lampshe installed a sliding bolt on the outside of her bedroom door, and propped a heavy sledgehammer up to another triggering mechanism outside the doorShe said goodnight o her drunken mother, and then prepared to fall asleep.