It's funny, plausible, harmless, yet spiky with hints of danger, and it doesn't outstay its welcome.
Still, the handling is lively enough that it sends amusement-ride shivers -- hints of danger, never realized -- up the spine.
As more bona fide uses led to a medical revolution — X-rays for medical imaging, radium for killing rapidly dividing cancer cells — hints of danger gradually accumulated.
It's a miasmic, ethereal sound, its ghostly intimations of luxurious sensuality stippled with dreamy hints of danger which, in the closing cover version, transforms "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" into the most sinister of torch songs.
The tantalizing early hints of danger in Mr. Butz's performance are underscored by Jack's jokey references to murder; by David Weiner's sinister lighting between scenes; and by Mark Bennett's sound design, which blends recordings of cozy standards like "Sentimental Journey" with ominous, horror-movie crackles.
Weaponizing and monetizing the animal instincts lurking inside our cortexes, our automatic responses to social stress, hints of danger, suggestions of collapse, spectacular faraway warnings.
