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The film is a worthy coda for Karloff's career, a fine directorial debut for Bogdanovich, and a symbolic [[GenreTurningPoint passing of the torch]] from one generation of movie-makers to the next.
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The film is a worthy coda for Karloff's career, a fine directorial debut for Bogdanovich, and a symbolic [[GenreTurningPoint passing of the torch]] from one generation of movie-makers to the next.
next. It was also a major inspiration for ''Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood''.
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Bobby Thompson is clean-cut and seemingly upbeat. The only person who remarks on his appearance at all is the gun salesman who says he has an honest face. No one, including his wife or mother [[spoiler: his first victims]] has any idea he's planning a killing spree.
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* SlasherMovie: One of the earliest examples along with ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' and ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'', though this one is more of the gun-toting kind (in a similar vein as the sub-genre's textbook example ''Film/TheTerminator'') than the usual knifing type.
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* SlasherMovie: One of the earliest examples along with ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' and ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'', though this one is more of the gun-toting kind (in a similar vein as the sub-genre's SubGenre's textbook example ''Film/TheTerminator'') than the usual knifing type.
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* WouldHurtAChild: As Thompson opens fire on the drive-in theater, we hear a child crying. A shot rings out. [[NothingIsScarier The child stops crying.]]
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* AdamWesting: PlayedForDrama. The aging veteran horror movie actor Boris Karloff plays the aging veteran horror actor Byron Orlok, who's decided to retire because he thinks that real life is now scarier than any of his movies.
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* AdamWesting: PlayedForDrama. The aging veteran horror movie actor Boris Karloff Karloff, in one of his final roles, plays the aging veteran horror movie actor Byron Orlok, who's decided to retire because he thinks that real life is now scarier than any of his movies.
