i’m most fascinated by carpenter’s use of composition here. has similar photographic principles as they live of a visually pleasant americana being enveloped and suffocated through pre-existing geography. edward hopper influence is obvious in the stillness, although the measured editing recalls hitchcock’s hopper influence more than hopper himself (and i wonder if the train insert in the sex scene is a north by northwest reference). the darwinian view is even more pronounced here, most apparent in the shots of the alien…