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Cinematographer Juan Gelpi gave this otherwise mediocre production a fittingly creepy "look". He also did two other productions where he worked as DP that I remember from my youth: "That Man in Istanbul" and "They Came to Rob Las Vegas". Interestingly, they were both directed by the same man: Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi.

I remember these European productions as totally entertaining to my young sensibilities. Those movies, as myself then, were of those times so such movies have to be taken in the context of the zeitgeist then. Audiences then had no problem with "slow going" narratives or sparsely placed action sequences which, now, have to be liberally strewn all over the screen to sustain viewers' attention.

I saw this commercial in the theater years ago and I had to LOL, causing some in the audience to look my way. I think I was the only one who got it that he was doing a scene from Truffaut's "Day for Night/La Nuit Americaine".

"Frangement, je ne te comprends pas, t'es bizarre!"

And very clever too!

This caused Val Kilmer's downfall and he was blamed for this movie's failure. It was the SCRIPT/SCREENPLAY. I'm surprised David Brown didn't see that problem to begin with. First, they should have gotten rid of the cold fusion component. They were banking on being prescient, that it's the next big thing and they lost. A script doctor could have saved the movie. It's understandable that Kilmer wanted to do different characters based on saints which they should have focused on. So much blood under the bridge...