Aki and Himeno meeting at night is a reference to Francis Lawrence's 2005 horror Constantine. The scene of a lonely Angel Devil sitting at the bottom of the stairs is a reference to little Gabe Singer sitting at the stairs in Adrian Lyne's psychological horror film from 1990 Jacob's Ladder. The next reference shows Denji has his hands over his mouth in horror while Power is standing behind him, paralleling a scene from Hideo Nakata's 1996 horror film Don't Look Up. There's a bizarre scene of the Devil Hunters in an office with blueprints of the Tomato Devil plastered on the wall and Kobeni is crawling around on the table, which is a very clever reference to John DeBello's 1978 parody film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. The Tarantino references don't stop when the opening transitions to Aki and Denji driving, a reference to 2019's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The opening transitions to Galgali, a Public Safety Devil Hunter, taking off his shoe in what appears to be a motel, a reference to the Coen brothers' 2007 neo-Western crime thriller No Country for Old Men. RELATED: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Halloween Horror Picks The setting of the scene where Denji sprints to fight Katana Man just as Akane Sawatari jumps into the well, a shimenawa wrapped around it to ward off evil, is a reference to Kōji Shiraishi's 2016 Japanese horror film Sadako vs. Kishibe is next shown holding a gun, a reference to a scene in another Tarantino film, 1994's Pulp Fiction, where Jules is locked in a gun stand-off with Ringo and Yolando in a diner.
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