I think there's a spy among us. In principle, the plot of the film is simple as 5 cents and is a transfer of the game to the Mafia in an unusual setting. There's a group of friends at the table, one of them is the mafia, and we'll figure it out in a variety of ways.
I looked at all sorts of reviews that had a bunch of SRSGs and proved what a high philosophical muddled film it was. Well, that's crazy, in short. An owl strung on a globe. You know, there are people who direct their imagination to create works (not necessarily brilliant, but their own), and there are those who with their imagination serve the existence of these works for a long period of time. Talk about movies, find something new there, look for some details to conclude "Everything fits", in 30-40 years to release a video "What the film really was about". It might be nice, but I wouldn't do it for anything. No, it's just an ordinary monster movie, brutal, bloody, with a middle script, breakthrough special effects, good acting and no ending. I don’t like movies that don’t end where they started. But in general, it is not bad, it must exist, it does not cause me any protest or unnecessary questions. We wanted to shoot this and filmed it, clearly, tensely, with taste. It's a normal movie, no more, no less.
Funny fact, by the way. The poster for the film was drawn by an artist who had no idea what the film was about, so he tried to create something as general as possible that could fit half the horror films. As a result, we have a kitsch poster with some diver, whose face glows brightly. Of course, there is nothing like that in the film. Carpenter was very sorry about this poster, and I don’t understand how it was allowed or why it wasn’t replaced. It's unprofessional.