Nah, I'm just playing at being clever. I don't post here very often, so I make an effort when the opportunity arises.

Perhaps it's a meta comment on the natural of serial murder being the same crime over and over, or that the nature of Hollywood film-making is to retread ground already gone over by better artists. "The cycle is endless, until they are caught" and the audience finally revolts against the criminal exploitation (of the…

In her lecture, the order in which she presents the killers is the same order the copycat uses for his mimicry. "Like addicts seeking their drug — Albert DeSalvo, Bianchi and Buono, Berkowitz, Dahmer, Bundy — they seek out their next victim." I thought it was a clue for the audience, or at least an Easter Egg sort of…

BFI might be releasing more of them on DVD soon, as this is how I discovered the folk-horror classic "Robin Redbreast".

The most traumatizing for me as an 80s kid was an episode of Q.E.D. called "Nuclear War: A Guide to Armageddon" [https://www.youtube.com/wat…].

Dead Head (http://www.theartsdesk.com/…

olivececile, you probably don't remember it because it's not actually shown. We're meant to piece it together from lots of other elements throughout the movie. If you watch it again, though, it will likely seem more clear.

Gordon's story was inspired in part by this: http://www.nytimes.com/1995…

You have it right except for he doesn't just hit her; he goes completely berserk, kills her and the baby, and promptly dissociates. He can't cope with what he'd done, so he 'remembers' it as something else. According to an interview with Anderson, this was based on a true story.