Dead man's hand in popular culture to bury him, and has no reference to Poker. In the expansion Dead Money, the player can collect cards that make up the famous Dead Man's Hand (Black aces, black eights and the Queen of Spades) from around the ruins of the Sierra Madre casino for an achievement. In the Collectible Card Game, "Doomtown", where conflicts are resolved by playing card numbers on the game cards used to make poker hands, the Dead Man's Hand (specifically, both black aces, both black eights and the Jack of Diamonds) is the highest possible hand. In there is a group of werewolf hunters
Dead Man "Jim Jarmusch is trying to get at something here, and I don't have a clue what it is". Desson Howe and Rita Kempley, both writing for the "Washington Post", offered largely negative appraisals. Greil Marcus, however, mounted a spirited defense of the film, titling his review "Dead Again: Here are 10 reasons why 'Dead Man' is the best movie of the end of the 20th century." Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum dubbed the film an acid western, calling it "as exciting and as important as any new American movie I've seen in the 90s" and went on to write a book