Peak:
- premise
- carpenter’s theme 
- kurt russell’s performance as snake
- the ending. one of my favorite in all of cinema.

kind of squishy middle section that couldve done more w the horror of its premise IMO, but still an alltimer for the above points. in this (near-future?) musk & peter thiel technohell wet dream vision of america, an act of apocalyptic nihilism is the only catharsis

just a really good existential hard scifi. non-horror psychological horror

persona beach vacation filler arc if it was a peak existential yakuza film

still trying to figure out if the flanged wind sound was intended as a symbolic motif or just for tense atmosphere, but it ruled. waaeowwaaeowwaaeowwaaeow 

beat takeshi’s best work?