It's Fulci. The flipside of the lunacy of Manhattan Baby for me, a dour delight that does still have a shocking element imo. It depends how much disbelief you can suspend really in my book......
What is ridiculous? A psychopath who has a twisted sense of humor? Hmmm NEVER seen that before........
It's a marmite film. Ask the BBFC who still cut it, even though that sequence is nothing compared to Snuff 102 (ok, bad example....hands up etc). The "imitative" arguement was always the weakest of their weak defence for their scattergun approach to moral guardianship
Ahem.