" While his wound was treated, Brent demanded food, water, and a map, and was shown where they last saw Taylor with Nova in the Forbidden Zone.The tension-filled, dialogue-heavy plot and character study (with many wordless reaction close-up shots), was beautifully filmed with Karl Freund""s B/W cinematography and supplemented with Max Steiner""s bombastic musical score.The summary ended with the previous film""s concluding sequence, in which Superman saved the West Coast from catastrophe when villain Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) detonated a nuclear missile on the San Andreas Fault.In silhouette, his upper body stiffly sits up in bed like a somnambulist or vampire rising from a coffin.One boy named Marcus Yeon (Aaron Yoo) had posted a web video, describing similar nightmares of a threatening, burned man with a striped sweater.