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The opening title music with the car on the road had been used in a 1961 episode of the TV series " Ben Casey " entitled " I Remember a Lemon Tree ," that piece of music accompanying each time that George C. Scott's character, a doctor who is secretly a drug addict, is injecting himself with morphine.

Some of the music in the film had previously been used on the soundtrack for the science-fiction B-movie Teenagers from Outer Space ( 1959 ).

The eerie musical piece during the tense scene in the film where Ben finds the rifle in the closet inside the farmhouse as the radio reports of mayhem play in the background can be heard in longer and more complete form during the opening credits and the beginning of The Devil's Messenger ( 1961 ) starring Lon Chaney Jr. Another piece, accompanying Barbra's flight from the cemetery zombie, was taken from the score for The Hideous Sun Demon ( 1959 ).

According to WRS, " We chose a selection of music for each of the various scenes and then George made the final selections.

We then took those selections and augmented them electronically ".

Sound tech R. Lococo's choices worked well, as Film historian Sumiko Higashi believes that the music " signifies the nature of events that await ".