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Charles Laughton's mind-boggling 1955 film Night of the Hunter has gone viral. Although it was deemed a failure upon its release, the passage of time has revealed its ingenuity and influence, and not just in film. Musicians have cited it at length , including Springsteen, The Clash, Murder City Devils, Chumbawumba, The Pogues and now Tussle, the San Francisco quartet whose recent effort Cream Cuts dropped last week. But unlike the aforementioned, Tussle's hypnotic electronica seizes only on the title, rather than Robert Mitchum's villainous preacher, whose knuckles are infamously [...]