I, too, remember the Budweiser commercial, I always laughed at it, as it was blatant. The movie itself was kinda cheesy in the backgrounds, the sounds, and the way people acted. It always had that strange, odd feel to it, which I think they were trying to make it slightly off to make it feel like something odd was going on throughout the whole movie, and the adverts added to that weirdness for me. Even the music that was played on the kid’s record player was weird…