A speaker here says this John Carpenter film is full of “creepiness” and “dread.” That’s not the word salad of a script I was watching. The characters are all either inconsistent or totally disinterested. The bugs go nowhere as a theme, the homeless go nowhere as a theme, the card tricks go nowhere, Walter literally goes nowhere, the pretentious sophomoric science babble is dull, and so on. I will admit that the main character is a creep and his uneven mustache is dreadful.

Love your takes on the films. After hearing the Big Trouble episode, your homework is definitely Buckaroo Bonzai. Peter Weller and John Lithgow in a bananas movie