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  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Thompson's shooting spree takes him to an oil refinery overlooking the highway, where he begins sniping with terrifying accuracy at cars driving by... and at anyone getting out of their cars to help.
    • Not to mention the shooting at the drive-in, especially with the scene where we see a crying kid in a car, then it pans to his father, who's been killed by a bullet in the car seat, and suddenly the kid stops crying.
  • Vindicated by History: Not a big box office hit when it was released - Too Soon after the Whitman shootings and just as Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated - the film has been re-assessed as a classic film, an excellent capper to Karloff's career, and a chilling statement on the banal brutality of the real world.