Schrader is quite the Dutch Reformed moralist, isn't he? Teddy Roosevelt (coreligionist) would have loved him.
Schrader is one of my all time favorite directors/screewriters. I actually really liked Light Sleeper. But Autofocus was really, really dark. A similar movie, Wonderland, came out around the same time. Also very dark.
Affliction is also really good. But autofocus makes it look like an episode of the Brandy Bunch.
OMG.