Thanks for the mention. Mondo Bizarro is an Exploitation Movie fan's favorite, especially that of those who look into the pre-MPAA Rating era of Exploitation and Sexploitation which started in Nov. 1968, when a couple of the first X ratings were for Greetings, Directed by a young Brian De Palma and starring Robert De Nero, and Girl on a Motorcycle starring Marianne Faithful and later called Naked Under Leather in a early 1971 re-issue (In '69, small cuts would turn the film into an R).
Mondo Bizarro was certainly an inspiration for the Ramones to call their 1990 album by that title, proven by their covers album a couple of years later being called the Acid Eaters, a film Produced and Distributed through David F. Friedman who was a friend and competitor of Olympic International's Bob Cresse. You can point to The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film as being a spark for a lot of interest in these films in The 80's and Something Weird Video's growth in the Early 90's.
"Back in the Day", it was a hit in Adult/Sexploitation film circles, and even was part of Olympic's 1970 campaign to get it's films into the growing Adult Theater business after the X Rating made these films more playable, although it certainly would have got an R today (it was from 1966, keep in mind). It's enjoyable, although some of Cresse's humor in the fake mondo scenes will be certainly be tasteless to some. This does not mean it was well known in mainstream circles, but it played well enough for many to remember both it's tasteless fake mondo scenes, fake credits, and the inclusion of some real captures in LA '66.
Actually, one of the background music selections was also used in Ray Dennis Steckler's flick Rat Phink a Boo Boo! Credited, too!
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