One of the opening scenes shows the cornfield, swing set, and table at night through a pane of glass; crickets can be heard softly chirping as the camera pans backward into the bedroom. Suddenly, they stop chirping and Rev. Hess awakes, startled. The crickets motif is used several times in the film to lend an eerie air to the scene, much as the unnatural cawing in The Birds. Anyone who lives in the countryside or has gone camping is familiar with the cricket. They are the "alarms" of the forest - they "hear" vibrations, so when someone...or something...approaches, they go quiet. Their chirping is an "all's well!"; when they go quiet, you know that danger may be near...

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