On this week’s episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, writer/director Ari Aster broke down the scene that is sure to become one of his most memorable.

“Eddington,” which A24 releases in theaters Friday, may be the most prominent American movie yet to explicitly wrestle with social and political division in the U.S.

In signature Aster fashion, the third act is so over-the-top violent that a woman at a Santa Fe screening asked Aster to explain how he uses special effects to create such a wide variety of deaths.