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Originally Posted by Angel  How does cutting footage make the scene appear nastier? |
If you haven't seen the uncut version it works far better. The actual slicing of the girl's chest/nipple is extremely phony-looking. In the cut Shameless version (where the camera cuts between the screams, Jack Hedley's blanching reaction on the phone, and slowed-down images of the hand holding the bloody razorblade) the imagination produces a far more unpleasant image than the scene itself.
The eyeball-slicing is still nasty stuff even now though.
