Filmed in only 29 days all on location with a budget of less than $1 million dollars and a cast of mostly unknown actors working for scale, the film has gone on to gross more than $200 million dollars at the box office and through home video sales making it one of the most profitable movies of all-time. (HERC has owned it on VHS, then DVD and now Blu-Ray so he is like $60 bucks right there.)