why'd freddy krueger do all that

the closing narration just explicitly saying "we think we're at war with ourselves" makes me howl. ghostwriting my review of every single vietnam war film. okay only the sad lad ones not the insane POW/MIA ones.

there's a supercut out there of every shot the alien actually appears, it's less than two minutes long and over half of that is the finale. that's cinema baby. the director's cut adds a bunch back in and it really undercuts the tension. the scene with brett's corpse half turned into an egg is great though that's way scarier than james cameron's ant queen

i've been reading reviews of this and a lot of them seem to be under the impression that orde wingate wasn't a real person? who was ten times more insane and fanatical than depicted here, to the point that an accurate portrayal would be unbelievable and capsize the film. slight own goal in the complaints that settlers are hardly portrayed here - they formed over half of wingate's special night squads, moshe dayan was one of them