Carpenter has said that the British audiences immediately understood and enjoyed the film's similarities to American westerns, whereas American audiences were too familiar with the western genre to fully appreciate the movie at first.
」卡本特曾表示，英國觀眾立即了解並欣賞這部電影與美國西部的相似之處，而美國觀眾對西部類型的了解卻非常熟悉，首先得要充分欣賞這部電影。