Fri, January 2, 2026
Aldrich has a great eye for camera, and his set decorator had a lot of fun creating richly detailed squalid apartments for a variety of different characters, but the reputation this film has built up seems a bit overblown. Hammer spends most of the middle treading water—adding texture (and a fantastic tour of ’50s LA) but advancing the mystery plot very little.
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