The movie director talks about shooting dark comedy At least four critics accused Stanley Kubrick of directing several films with uncomfortable themes for male audiences: Edward Stern at Rolling Stone noted that Kubrick turned John Carpenter's 1962 sci-fi masterpiece Into the Abyss into "the horror movie you watch every summer": "[T]his movie uses brutal horror themes as powerful focal points for rape and torture." Stanley Kubrick claimed he shot Out of Sight because "there were too many uncomfortable themes." Jonathan Holloway wrote that Kubrick shot Escape From New York