The results impress. Vann's actions all the more macabre. Undoubtedly, Hitchcock would approve. That proximity of good to evil is what the film is all about. Suitably, Vann is in many ways an everyman, one whose facility for murder seems almost random.
Some people are funny.
Brandishing a flask of poison-laced Amaretto, he simply puts people to sleep. Crucial to Minus's success was the casting of its creepy but likable antihero. Fancher, a man who frequently walks out of films, was unfamiliar with Wes Anderson's Bottle Rockets, which Owen Wilson co-wrote, as well as starred in. Nor had he seen Permanent Midnight, or Armageddon. Yet the young actor's reading was so on the money that he cast him on the spot.