The title, "Eye of the Holy See" was cooked up by 'Dave Schmidt' and Mike Gleason. Mike was in the Fine Arts program at the University of Minnesota at the time, and painted the title screen and all the credit screens.
The original premise for "Eye of the Holy See" was "Italian Spy Movie" to replicate the badly dubbed Italian films on TV during the 1950s and 1960s, and because the movie makers were dead-broke young adults of the 1970s who could not afford the technology necessary to produce lip-synched movies.
AHC Productions had an 8 mm 'straight 8' camera that one guy salvaged when his parents were about to throw it out. This was obsolete technology, even in the 1970s. On the other hand, they were audiophiles and fairly well equipped with stereo equipment, including decent reel-to-reel tape decks, amplifiers, microphones, and speakers.
Final editing and post-production on "Eye of the Holy See" was never finished (until the summer of 2008). The film was saved in a cool dark place, and the audio was transferred from reel-to-reel to audio cassette and likewise stored. There were a few private screenings at parties, where it was attempted to project the 8 mm film and play the audio from tape.
The first big fight scene where Borgo kills the mad scientist was shot in the basement of a farmhouse in Dayton, MN. The second fight scene was shot from the roof of the same farmhouse. The 'stuntmen' were actually enrolled in Jin Foon Marks preying mantis Kung Fu school and were quite adept at martial arts moves.