..But then, if that""s rue, then you must be gentle with me.You must bear with me, please.Oh please, Gregory, please!When she is left by herself, Paula admits that she is horrified and ""frightened of the house"": "I hear noises and footsteps.After Erik failed in his attempt, the tormenting Schmidt counted to three before maliciously executing Erik""s mother in front of him.To execute his plan, Webster and Gorman decided that he must become anonymous by using his computer skills in "someplace small" - Gorman was next seen exiting a bus in the town of Smallville, Kansas, where Clark, Lana, and Ricky were buying groceries and preparing to drive into the countryside to have a picnic.A controversial film often criticized for its depiction of aberrant sexual behavior, he surrealistic, psychosexual film was a throwback to art films, 50s B-movies and teenage romances,film noir, and the mystery-suspense genre.Each of the screens is blown or swept away with cigarette smoke.In the opening sequence, an unidentified hand and finger press in the doorbell buzzer of a mansion doorway.