I think the point of the movie was simply to give us classic horror-flick atmosphere for its own sake.
We have a DUEL-like truck from hell, a sewer that's not a sewer, a glimpse into Frankenstein's lab, an abandoned church, ravens, cats, spooky old ladies, macabre visual jokes, and a tall man the likes of which we haven't seen since PHANTASM. It's a devil of a comic flick if you can figure it out.
The theme seems to be the idea that evil can smell fear on a person -- and gobbles it up. Maybe the lesson is that you are what you eat. Or maybe it's a vegetarian statement. Or perhaps it's a commentary on our industrial-technological society's blindness to the supernatural in the universe. Heavy, huh?
In any event, the film has no tidy resolution, thus making me believe that it exists simply for its own scary atmosphere or it is an amusing parable about something such as I suggested.
Being a horror-movie fan, I liked it. It may not suit your taste, but then the movie-makers weren't cooking up something for everyone.
We have a DUEL-like truck from hell, a sewer that's not a sewer, a glimpse into Frankenstein's lab, an abandoned church, ravens, cats, spooky old ladies, macabre visual jokes, and a tall man the likes of which we haven't seen since PHANTASM. It's a devil of a comic flick if you can figure it out.
The theme seems to be the idea that evil can smell fear on a person -- and gobbles it up. Maybe the lesson is that you are what you eat. Or maybe it's a vegetarian statement. Or perhaps it's a commentary on our industrial-technological society's blindness to the supernatural in the universe. Heavy, huh?
In any event, the film has no tidy resolution, thus making me believe that it exists simply for its own scary atmosphere or it is an amusing parable about something such as I suggested.
Being a horror-movie fan, I liked it. It may not suit your taste, but then the movie-makers weren't cooking up something for everyone.