Apropos of grisliness: The blood bank nurse (who also gets killed) was played by some obscure "British bombshell" type whose son later became a TV star over there. Somewhere online I found a quote from him saying his mom had killed herself in some strange, horrible way he couldn't even talk about. Needless to say, I instantly became insatiably curious (but couldn't follow up -- on-line, anyway -- and didn't feel like going the extra mile).