Perhaps the first
urban film of the genre, this moody thriller stars Arthur Franz as a deranged young man who shoots women with a surplus Army rifle, prompting a police manhunt in hilly San Francisco.
Not exact matches
The
film falls into the subgenre Folk Horror, a largely British off - shoot
of the horror
genre exploring the
urban inhabitant's unease about the countryside, where spiteful and superstitious bumpkins are still in the thrall
of demonic forces.
By comparison, Diana's efforts to stop the Great War provide a sense
of hope not present in
films like Man
of Steel or Batman v Superman, while also taking the superhero
genre out
of an
urban environment and contrasting Diana's supernatural powers against early 20th century firepower and chemical weapons.
Every moment an exhausting workshop
of ideas (and every character the same), The Caveman's Valentine is a concept so «high concept» that it suddenly became clear to me that the
film fits into the comic - book
genre of entertainment, with Romulus's «Caveman» a slightly more mundane version
of Todd McFarlane's
urban noir hero, Spawn.
«A City Caught in the Crossfire,» reads the tagline, entering this
film into the generic
urban crime
genre and doing little to quell expectations
of ridiculousness.