The super-hero film set the record for the biggest 3-day domestic opening weekend in box-office history, at $151.Of the seven Academy Award nominations, there were four Oscars: Goldman was awarded an Oscar for Best Story and Screenplay and Conrad Hall was honored for his cinematography.The film""s poster taglines emphasized:It delves without compromise into the hungers that lie deep within us all!A searching look into the innermost depths of a woman""s heart.I""ll make a queen of that barbarous wretch."The unwashed Cockney girl is led into a fancy new bedroom, while a maid runs water into a bathtub in the adjoining bathroom.After Myers turned up the temperature controls outside the room, Budd was strangled (with a cord) and killed(# 4 death)by the brutal killer while checking the thermostat gauge outside the room (without her knowledge), just before the nude nurse also succumbed by having her face repeatedly dunked and scalded to death in the 130 degree water(# 5 death).