A genre piece's genre piece. Some of it's gorgeous (silky noir photography, young Anne Bancroft, that oil rig scene, the mountain location shooting, Anne Bancroft), some of it's flat and lame (women with no agenda besides supporting a man, boring stoicism from our hero), but when you want a burger, here's a burger.
New criterion blu ray is divine!
Hits a little different in this era of manosphere podcasts and Epstein files, but still casts the same hypnotic nightmarish spell.
One of the best opening scenes I’ve seen in recent years.
(Also, anyone who thinks “The Shape of Water” set the high bar for human-ichthyoid relations on screen needs to watch this.)
