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Tightly controlled scenes avoid the pointlessness and repetition of the nouveau zombie films, limning class struggle in unexpected ways

In expiation for his pusillanimity in the opening reel

They discouraged people from seeing it, but Romero’s images proved to be indelible

Right up to the unsatisfying, to-be-continued ending, the film’s lugubrious quality marks Hell or High Water as an example of grievance cinema, art-directed for a new era of violent self-pity, economic decline, and racial appropriation.

Argento plays the courtesan as alternately fawning and louche