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...manages to be both a daringly nihilistic story of a psycho sniper on the loose as well as a comparison of modern cinema's new, psychological horrors to the traditional Gothic shenanigans of Corman and Hammer.

...is effective in places and Bogdanovich shows the promise of being ready to make a whole movie all at once.

...brilliant finale, set at a drive-inpremiere of the latest Orlok opus, puts both of these horrors--the movieland fiction of Orlok and the real-life danger of Thompson--up on the screen together.

...Bogdanovich's first and, arguably, greatest movie.