When the policeman leaves his house & is driving to "the" precinct, there are a couple of cars that pull alongside him and the drivers of those cars slow down, driving level with his car & look at him menacingly.
I found that quite creepy.
I know it didn't have anything to do with the plot, but felt that it set the "bad things are going to happen" vibe very well.
I think it was just the drivers noticing the camera in Stoker's passenger seat.
shareHaha! yeah, it was the same lady with a fro who kept looking in the camera! Nice interpretation, but knowing Carpenter being the king of "goofs" (look at his Halloween, oozing with mistakes!)I think it was unintentional.
shareOoh yeah, I remember that black lady with the fro and batwing glasses driving a Mercury! She always creeped me out! The early to mid-1970's had so many God-awful styles in clothes and hair! Wilson and Wells looked okay, though
shareIt is clearly a passer by rubbernecking the camera car. But it is creepy. It definitely gives the scene a bit more of an edge.
@Twitzkrieg - Glasgow's FOREMOST authority
I thought the same thing. Those people definitely made this scene worth having in the movie. I started watching the cars thinking maybe they were gang members and this cop was about to get killed. Creepy ass people.
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I thought she was flirting with him?
I noticed it too and first time watching it expected her to level with him again when he's at the traffic lights after.
Clearly they had someone on the road with the 'Fro lady noticing the passenger seat camera when he was doing that scene which made it even better IMO.
I got to watch this in the cinema on Sunday morning at 4am which was epic.
I listened to John Carpenter's audio commentary on the movie and he claimed that the people driving cars in the background weren't actors. They legitimately had no idea what was happening.
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