UK-based teacher, actor, musician and fearful film enthusiast Nigel Parkin ongoing column charting sexual perversion in classic horror films.
A few weeks ago our esteemed editor celebrated the opening scene of Stuart Gordon’s 1985 gross-out splatter classic, RE-ANIMATOR. It is certainly a great moment but we all know which scene really gives this film its legendary status. There are few experiences in cinema more gloriously and deliriously perverse than seeing the re-animated figure of David Gale’s Dr Carl Hill grasping his own severed, leering, blood-drooling head and guiding it down the naked body of Barbara Crampton‘s gorgeously appalled Megan.
