Michael Barnes wrote: Spoilers...
I don't know if there has ever been a better use of three or four extra seconds of silence in a film as when she asks Black Phillip to speak. It just hangs in the air...will he or won't he? The entire film is suspended in that moment. And then he DOES. It's like the film is saying "I am NOT fucking with you."
I completely agree! That moment was so damned intense. Did we get a decent look at "Black Phillip" at that point? I only saw the movie one time, in the theater, and afterwards my recollection was that it had seemed like his face was just out of sight.