The opening sequence was parodied at least twice: (1) Neil DeGrasse Tyson""sCosmosscience series, hat used Gershwin music and the Manhattan skyline, and (2) the UK""s Channel 4, low-budget, cult sit-comSpaced (1999-2001) (in Season 2, Episode 1).It was billed as "Paramount""s SHOCKING, SUSPENSE-FILLED MASTERPIECE OF LOVE...AND MURDER." From its opening sequence, he film identifies with the self-destructive murderer and his murder plot, using the metaphor of a train ride with the evil heroine that goes "all the way.All night, I walk the city, watching the people go by.I try to sing a little ditty, but all that comes out is a sigh.The street looks very frightening, the rain begins and then comes lightning.It seems love""s gone to pot, I""d rather have the blues than what I""ve got...In a snide, sneering mood, the driver, Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) [with a deliberately forceful, pounding, hard phallic name] reveals that he is returning to Los Angeles.He placed the diamond on the tower""s top, and it revealed a zig-zagging pathway to Shangri-La higher up on the mountain.Tommy had inadvertently resurrected or reanimated Jason (C.J.Graham) from his grave (signaled by a close-up of his opened eye), causing him to now be a supernatural undead zombie.