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This one particular scene certainly wounded me as a child. It was sure horrific for it's time, but looking at it from an "adult" perspective, there's even something deeper going on. Just the thought of murdering a defenceless woman for her car is bad enough. But to drive it with the body in the passenger seat, bloodied, moist, not even cold seems cruelly macabre and a bit twisted. I think up to this point the monster kills I witnessed were clean or off camera.

Probably something in my young empty unfiltered consciousness told me "this is wrong", planting that seed of fear in my head. We weren't exposed to real life horrors like Ed Gein and such till a bit later on. Thats the kind of horror I liken this scene to. Funny how this stuff now seems like fluff compared to what we witness in film and just past our front doors nowadays.

"You can't smell any reefer, can you"?  
Last Edited By: skelton knaggs Aug 30 09 7:01 PM. Edited 1 times.