One title screen noted hat the film""s screenwriters used material that was "compiled from many sources and contains material from three novels" (as noted in the "Background" above), and also wrote their script “in accordance with the ancient texts of Philo, Josephus, Eusebius, The Midrash and The Holy Scriptures.They have come for refuge to the respectable Brewster house since it will be the perfect quiet hideout for them while eluding police.Sandy points out the brick building where the singer lives on the 7th Floor.The camera pauses on the street sign.(Their attempts to investigate the underlying mystery, like amateur Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys-style sleuths, confront them with a variety of kinky, nocturnal, repellent, inhuman (insect-like) characters, an unsettling universe inside the head of the ear that is their only piece of evidence.After the stock of the highly-coveted gun was to be engraved with his name, McAdam was told that he could pick up the Winchester the next morning...The pines were roaring on the height, The winds were moaning in the night, The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light.