Movie #2 of the Gap Theatre’s “Vault of Horror” mystery triple feature. Trailers were: Jaws, Jaws 2, and Jaws 3-D.

Movie #1 of the Gap Theatre’s “Vault of Horror” mystery triple feature. Trailers were: The Sentinel; Seizure; Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.

As if Lucio Fulci had made The Thing. No, wait: as if Lucio Fulci's biggest fan had made The Thing. No, no, as if Lucio Fulci's biggest fan cross-bred The Thing with Night of the Living Dead. No wait it's Hellraiser and Lovecraft and oh god there's just so many unsynthesized influences here good god no waiiiiiit... More soon at RogerEbert.com.

Samuel Fuller is the filmmaker I most immediately think of when somebody complains that a film is too "blunt," or not "subtle" enough. Fuller was never subtle, but he never needed to be. I Shot Jesse James, Fuller's directorial debut, is so good because virtually every scene--many of which play out like a series of slow-boil confrontations--is packed with clever ideas that makes the film's psychological realism consistently gratifying. Subtlety can kiss my ass.