Daniel Waters @troubledwatersx Twitter profile

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2 years

As the writer of Batman Returns all I have to say is…so wait, you’re telling me he’s a detective?

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What I wake up to every morning. RIP Shannen. She didn’t know our film was a comedy

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34 years ago today, Heathers was hatched. Janet Maslin said “Legitimately Startling” and Pauline Kael said “the writer has a malicious ability in pinning down psychological cant.” How cool would it have been if I died in a helicopter crash the next day?

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I followed Heathers with Ford Fairlane, thinking I had written a brilliant satire of hardboiled machismo with Dice as my Closeau. First scene of first day of shooting, Gilbert Gottfried ad-libs “She was a pig so I fucked her!” Realize I may have miscalculated. Still loved the guy

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“I’ve found the perfect writer for Hudson Hawk. They’re going to be talking about our collaboration for years!”

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When I’ve had too much to drink, I Google “Daniel Waters Underrated” and enjoy the fireworks or at least the flickering sparklers. Happy 30th birthday to the rather adorable, Nostradumbass, Stallone Sleeperization Demolition Man

Why Demolition Man Was One of the Best Action Movies of the 1990s

Demolition Man was one of the most underrated '90s action films that is held up by a solid premise.

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I shamelessly glommed onto a rare, pro Hudson Hawk post. Where were these expressions of joy in 1991?

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@thorpe_the I’m not sure I agree with you but I wrote the film and this thread has been very good for my dwindling ego

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@thorpe_the I’m not sure I agree with you but I wrote the film and this thread has been very good for my dwindling ego

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I’ve taken a lot of both love and bile for this picture but the fact my intentionally misguided blockbuster tinkering helped get a jillion dollar picture a slot in an Indie film fest will always make me smile

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BATMAN RETURNS was released 32 years ago today, which is as good an excuse as any for me to once again trot out this piece I wrote in 2018 when it played at the MFA.

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@UtleyYATM @luke_piotrowski Greatest one word line delivery in the history of Film

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@DWLundberg Much to my dishonor, Wesley Strick wrote that scene, not me

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ALIEN ROMULUS is not undazzling, with some of the best IMAX alchemy ever but, like most recent spectacle pictures, it’s an episode of Sports Center—highlights and top ten plays of the day. How I crave the intensity and dramaturgy of an actual game

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Going into surgery tomorrow. I’ve always been pretty cool about the prospect of death….but not during Succession and Barry’s final seasons. Don’t take me yet, Lord!

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1986! Now this is a list that excites me….

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Back from seeing John Wick 4 in IMAX. I’m sure, over history, there have been better films. I just can’t seem to think of any. I recall something about a Mafia family where Sterling Hayden played a cop but my memory is clouded. Today John Wick 4 is cinema’s finest achievement.

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Oh man, I thought my bawdy Batman Returns Q&A was just between us @am_cinematheque

Tim Burton’s Catwoman Spinoff Would’ve Been an ‘$18 Million Black and White’ Film, Says ‘Batman...

Tim Burton's "Batman Returns" Catwoman spinoff would have been in black and white, screenwriter Daniel Waters said.

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@jasondashbailey @KLStudioClassic Director Lehmann and writer me did a new commentary track that was rejected for its good natured honesty

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@DeclouxJ I tried to explain the Honk if You’re Horny sketch to a group of people at a diner and it’s the closest I ever came to dying

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Be it Donald Cammell’s director’s cut or even the chopped up cut, Anne Heche gave one of my favorite perfs ever in The Wild Side, I got to tell her at a party. She told me Scorcese and Jonathan Demme were similarly effusive. What a tragedy…but track down that crazy movie

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@paulinekaelbot I vastly prefer the quote “the writer has a malicious ability in pinning down psychological cant” and yes, I’m the writer

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I see them all, regardless of shitty trailers and my own actual desires and gut feelings. Sometimes God rewards. I’m saying that Julia Louis Dreyfuss Big Death Parrot picture is something like a masterpiece

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Michael Ritchie. How can a guy start off with greatness and devolve into crap?…wonders the writer of Heathers and Vampire Academy. I discuss my bittersweet idol with main man @Karaszewski and macho beast @FilmIntuition on her podcast extraordinaire Watch With Jen!

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@BookishPlinko This is the peak but there is enough good batshit to make me forget the last film. Momoa’s reaction to a beloved character’s death later in the film tickles me everyday

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@BeyondFest @RRRMovie I am an Academy member. I’m not encouraged to reveal my vote but you know I did Rhe Right Ring!

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Pulled a Luise Rainer with back-to-back Razzies for Ford Fairlane/Hudson Hawk. Criterion Channel series inclusion would have turned my Lemons into Tragedy+Time=Comedy Lemonade but no, a snub on top of a snub

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I’m just glad The Science Guy got in!

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@Nick_McGurk @LexG_III The first draft of my script for Returns had Robert Wuhl’s annoying character crucified against the Bat signal with his corpse projected against the sky

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@thorpe_the My kind of love story! The ideal reaction to my work came when I was told of a double date coming out of Heathers that instantly led to two breakups. The Heathers lovers of each couple eventually married

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Went to bed last night knowing nothing could taint my love for Shohei Ohtani and Late Night With The Devil

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A literal skeleton in my closet. I had more metabolism than talent

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I made my case to @ArrowFilmsVideo that they include this rare slice of 80s comedy gold featuring a young @troubledwatersx giving it his all as AMERICAN GILLIGAN for the new AMERICAN GIGOLO 4K, but it was just too hot for them to handle.

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@bdgrabinski It is my humiliating duty to report that this is how I began a draft of Heathers. Thankfully (and now ironically) Winona Ryder killed it by pleading “please don’t make me jog!”

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⁦ @mangiotto ⁩ For weeks I wondered when it would be my turn. Finally!

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Fellow Blackhats, delighted by director’s cut excision of Hemsworth’s horrendous Santa Claus quip, among other trims…but, despite MM’s intentions, sheepishly prefer the theatrical’s power plant opening. Which version do I show doubting virgins tomorrow?

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I don’t throw the word “masterpiece” around lightly—okay maybe I do, but still, every cut in this film elicited a laugh or a gasp

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Here's the trailer for my film THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED. Our theatrical release is April 26! "Looks like a *weird* movie" – my mother

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Not just Affleck’s best performance, one of the all time great male performances of a Male

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I woke up this morning and vomited for no reason. I then realized it’s National Ketchup Day. Ketchup, aka The Devil’s Semen, has been making perfectly delicious hamburgers, hot dogs, and French fries pointlessly taste like ketchup for eons. Boo the Ruin Goo!

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@kickassvargas David O Russell is a big fan

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@DWLundberg As the writer of the film, I approve this message

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1 year

The scaffolding is up on MY 500 FAVORITE FILMS 1903-2025 list and I need you good folk to tell me a movie you think I may not have experienced yet. Yes, I’ve seen Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Capricorn One, and Bykov’s Soviet masterwork, Scarecrow

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Loving the rancor behind this “Stop calling entertaining action movies stupid” discourse, but man, saw The Beekeeper last night and it really is great and really is bad

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2 years

No Fanny and Alexander? This List is ridic—Heathers at #4 ? Who am I to dispute the wisdom of Marie Claire?

The 50 Best '80s Movies

An official roundup of the decade's standout films.

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I’m getting a lot of time traveler accusations on this thread. Feel like Nostradumbass!

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@WallStreetSilv Demolition Man movie is becoming real

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@elazic So you’re saying you like Batman Returns more (flutters eyelashes)

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I try to avoid these time sucks, but perfect album released when you were 16? That’s 1978 for me people and at least 36 perfect albums came out then. Just one….

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My favorite Super Bowl memory…when Oscar wins a big bet on The Odd Couple!

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@4krazykatz As the writer, I’m ashamed to admit I lazily used Burger King. When Joel Silver told me “Sorry kid, Burger King turned us down and Taco Bell stepped up,” I was overjoyed.

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First Hiller in a theater: The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder—First Hyams: Capricorn One—First Yates: For Pete’s Sake—First Kershner: S*P*Y*S—First Aldrich in a theater: Hustle—First Fleischer: Doctor Doolittle (first movie in a theater PERIOD)

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I don’t care about the Oscars, the Globes or Christmas. Only The Ehrlich:

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THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2022 a video countdown

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@McR1B69 One Two Three>>>>>Some Like It Hot

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@smoissakis @Rockyramaclub I sound very sexy in French

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@Karaszewski Sad. No Child is going to lose 35 pounds for David Gordon Green

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I for (perhaps literally) for one remember the scene in UFORIA where Cindy Williams wakes up next to Fred Ward. She sneers “Get out. You got what you wanted.” Fred wardly says “I was also hoping for some breakfast” RIP

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@bdgrabinski @BeyondFest One of the great filmgoing experiences of my life……if only this Q&a would end

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@KarinaLongworth Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady is her best film, Nicole Kidman’s best performance, and it’s better than Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Also, I have a fondness for A Good Time Call…

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@leslieleeiii Shouldn’t make the writer’s day…this makes my day

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@mangiotto @docstrangelove Hudson Hawk plot recaps always make me feel like I’m sitting at the Hague, Urkeling my war crimes…”Did I do that?” Sending good vibes to Bruce nevertheless

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Eyeballed 900 90’s Best Lists. Faves of the Not Mentioned Once: Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train, Bad Boy Bubby, Un Couer En Hiver, The Insider, Donald Camnell’s The Wild SIde, Bob Roberts, Bulworth, Naked Killer, Iron Giant

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@bdgrabinski Basic is fine but I love how this still, which basically gives away the film’s surprise ending, was attached to many opening day reviews I read of the film

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@FritzandOscars Do The Right Thing, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Drugstore Cow—oh forget it! Such a good year for movies, not for Oscar. Call me a scoundrel, but My Left Foot is the only nominee I admire

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@kmkrout @joerussotweets Ha! I’m a writer of Batman Returns and heard Nolan at a Q&A, violently pooh-poohing BR. I thought he was going to whip a laser pointer on me and have me brought down for an on-stage crucifixion

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@PunishedLobster Ran to the theater Friday because it was the one film I knew wouldn’t be running The Menu trailer. Terrific movie incidentally

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@bdgrabinski Wow! I was alone at a downtown Regal morning show. Same joy ratio

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@LazlosGhost I have a fondness for both reviews. Ebert is poignant in his “I don’t get it”-ness and Kael, my hero, says I “have a malicious ability in pinning down psychological cant”…which is pretty T-shirt worthy

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What did I do to deserve this? Thank you….but a shared writing credit with Stanley would have been nice. Sorry @docstrangelove

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@troubledwatersx Remember how you dreamed of having Stanley Kubrick direct Heathers? Well, I made this.

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@paulinekaelbot Hey! There are better quotes you could have picked, bot! How about “the writer [me] has a malicious ability in pinning down psychological cant “? Much better!

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@HitFactoryPod When they pull out the insufferable narration, Blade Runner-style, I’ll give you my consent

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@PeterAPeel If Andrea Riseborough doesn’t get to play Pauline, I hope she at least gets the role of Renata Adler for the climactic sword fight at the end

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@ErinCaldwell_xo As the humble writer of the original film, it kills me I never made it out to see you. I love the swagger of your stills…

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When one of your best Womenfolk friends writes, directs and stars in a movie, it may not be the best time to rhapsodize your appreciation of Unlikable Female Characters….but @gillianhorvat can handle it! Check out I BLAME SOCIETY from @VinegarSyndrome !

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@elazic @ricrawlinzo @notnotnuanced Why do you hurt me?

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@joerussotweets This was an episode of the Blacklist with Isabella Rosselini

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@joshuarolson I’m still waiting for my Catwoman notes

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@mangiotto @unclegrambo @decider A Walter Chaw ode is better than an Oscar

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@PeterAPeel Was on MGM Grand with Joel Silver, Renny Harlin, Bo Goldman, and Penny Marshall, who good naturedly sneered “Stop staring at your ad, kid”

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@XanaxatTheDisc0 She called me “hardly uninteresting “—still my favorite damn with faint praise

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@TheNewWorldPod Gee, what does the writer have to do to get on the podcast?

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They tackle me from getting too far deep into my Melanie Griffith love/fear relationship

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Falconetti Jeanne D’Arc, Adjani Possession, Watts Mullholland Drive, Bondarchuk Solaris, Heche The Wild Side

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@joshuarolson Weekend At Bernie’s as political satire

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@bdgrabinski Still recovering

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I’m a Film/Football bigamist, the only human to say the words “Aw man, UCLA is screening Hester Street the day of the Super Bowl!” Today’s quandary: Last Action Hero at the Alamo vs Cowboys/Bucs. Can I really just DVR? Seems unseemly

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@SeanMBurns One of THE great daffy honors this film ever received, both the festival slot and your words

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@LazlosGhost I’ll put my superhero/multiverse vomit level up against anyone’s. This film is full body and brain joy. Don’t be scared. Yes, it Empire Strikes Back your ass but this much bliss can be forgiven

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@FritzandOscars Michelle Pfieffer, Batman Returns

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Coming home to a DVR of Bisset = Bliss. Okay not the movies exactly, but she really is quite pleasant

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@juliacmarchese I’m just the writer but I’ve always felt Love unshackles JD, for the first time, to actually do the things he’s only thought about.

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@SeanMBurns Carey Mulligan is my favorite actress with the most movies I can’t stand

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@cmacram 32 minutes and no likes. Y’all making the writer very sad. I mean, not July 1990 sad, but sad

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@ADuralde My commentary was rejected for being too cheeky. True Story.

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@FritzandOscars The Portrait of a Lady is an unheralded masterpiece so I must spread love to Hershey

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@Nuslerosh I saw it and can confirm it will be nominated for Best Picture. Also, it’s pretty awful

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@JBondPersuader The Incredible(s) costumes of Octopussy’s army

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@TheNewWorldPod Come on, man, not every Batman film needs to be the same! Embrace the spectrum! Quality Batman over quantity Batman! Isn’t the best Catwoman enough for your respect? Comic book loyalty is overrated

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@PeterAPeel Hey, don’t downgrade my achievements! I won Worst Screenplay two years in a row. Totally Luise Rainered that shit!

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@pattonoswalt @DaveOnFXX @GaTaGED Scene with Anne Frank was the height of 2023 TV

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@mangiotto I’m sorr—I mean thanks!

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@mavericksmovies Strange reactions, folks. It happens to be the best performance of the five. Quality is a good thing

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@pmiscove I was at the premiere! “And enjoyed?” Raised hand swooshes down, pulling arm from socket

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@StephenSeanFord Director’s Cut definitely astronomically better but, alas, both versions have Orlando Bloom as the lead

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@the_hoyk @newbeverly This one has always fascinated me. Takes some disturbing turns but I’ll tell anyone who listens that its opening credit sequence ranks up there with Touch of Evil and Enter the Void

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