Merle Allin also played in the punk band Thrills as well as the band Cheater Slicks. The Murder Junkies formed in 1990 and broke up in 199 before reforming in 2003. Merle Allin and his mother Arleta are the subject of a documentary film by Sami Saif that began production in 2016. He acted in the 1996 movie Tromeo and Juliet and appeared in the films It Came from Trafalgar and Living the American Nightmare.