An average horror film that tries to think hard on certain ideas, but fails in giving anything provocative or scary. Has the same types of faults, which plague later Oliver Stone films such as Natural Born Killers(1994), and U-Turn(1997). Michael Caine transcends the story and gives a performance that foreshadows his dark humorous one in A Shock to the System(1990). Its a difficult prospect for a director to balance between the horrific and philosophical, and Stone has some trouble doing this. Stone's films work when the ideas presented are not overburdened with pretension as in some of his films. Oliver Stone would recover from this disaster to make his first masterpiece, Salvador(1984). Recommanded only for hardcore Michael Caine or Oliver Stone fans.
