Fantabulous. I watched the entire thing in a day, so it really felt like one long movie. "Intense" would be the word I would use if I could only use one.

And I'm actually happy I knew about the weird fiction connection going in, cause I was always in Lovecraft mode while watching it. Rust almost felt like a Lovecraft protagonist after he'd seen something that he wasn't supposed to: broken, nihilistic, and with a crushing sense of his own tiny place in the universe.

The VHS tape was some great weird fiction-style horror as well. Just enough to be creepy, but in the end it tells you nothing and let's your imagination horrify itself.

Even Louisiana was a perfect setting. It had that same kind of desolate, isolated, creepy atmosphere as the kinds of New England ****holes that a Lovecraft story always takes place in.