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- ↑ EB VIP – Richard Oldfield at echobasecon.nl, accessed 1 December 2017
- 1 2 'Emily', in Variety's Film Reviews: 1975-1977, volume 14 of the series (R. R. Bowker, 1989)
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- 1 2 Films and Filming Volume 25 (1978), p. 33
- 1 2 Empire Movie Miscellany: Instant Film Buff Status Guaranteed (2012), p. 122
- 1 2 John Kenneth Muir, Horror Films of the 1980s (Volume 1, 2011), p. 159
- ↑ John Kenneth Muir, Eaten Alive at a Chainsaw Massacre: The Films of Tobe Hooper (2009), p. 94