Doc Rotten's 666 Revelations: Movie Monsters of 1975

The tag line from the trailer for the highest grossing horror film of 1975 sums it up “It’s as if God created the Devil and gave him … Jaws!” Stephen Spielberg’s masterpiece based on Peter Benchley’s best-selling novel dominates the horror industry for 1975. Not many can compare to the fear the great white shark brought to the big screen, but many have tried. Robert Fuest releases the devil himself, in the form of Jonathan Corbis, to the southwest in The Devil’s Rain. William Castle and Jeannot Szwarc bring smaller terror to Southern California with Bug. Bill Rebane unleashes a Giant Spider Invasion upon Northern Wisconsin. David Cronenberg infests a Canadian apartment complex with They Came from Within. In Italy, Dario Argento follows the exploits of a troubled murderer in Deep Red. Kevin Conner takes a group of survivors to the uncharted land of Caprona to encounter The Land that Time Forgot. Richard O’Brien and Jim Sharman bedazzle audiences with Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the horror-sci-fi-musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And a small town called Amity deals with Bruce, hungry great white shark, in Jaws. Here are a few of the Movie Monsters of 1975.

MUTANT COCKROACHES in BUG

Cinematic legend William Castle filmed some of the most enjoyable scary movies of the Fifties and Sixties – The House on Haunted Hill (1959), The Tingler (1959) and 13 Ghosts (1960) to name only a few. As writer and producer, Bug is his final film in which he adapted Thomas Page’s 1973 novel The Hephaestus Plague. In the story, an earthquake rocks a small southwest town and opens a giant fissure. A swarm of giant, intelligent cockroaches escape from the newly formed crevasse and begin to set fire – by rubbing together their cerci – to plant-life, houses and cars in order to produce ash which they devour. Professor James Parmiter decides to experiment on them and creates a mutated version of the insect which is highly intelligent and flies.

JONATHAN CORBIS in THE DEVIL’S RAIN

The Abominable Dr. Phibes director, Robert Fuest, helmes the low-budget Satan shocker, The Devil’s Rain which features Anton LaVey as technical advisor. Ernest Borgnine stars as films antagonist, Jonathan Corbis, the head priest of a Satanic cult terrorizing the Preston family who are guardians of a powerful demonic tome that could grant him great power. William Shatner, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, Joan Prather and Tom Skerrit make up the Preston family. Borgnine is menacing and evil as Jonathan Corbis when in civilian close and later in his red-robed devil-worshipping attire. Later, he becomes a true monster as he takes the form of a goat-headed devil. During the climax, Devil-Corbis, along with dozens of his followers including John Travolta in an early role, begin to melt down to a pile of goo as the Devil’s Rain washes over them.

GIANT SPIDERS in GIANT SPIDER INVASION

One of the schlockiest movies of the decade, Giant Spider Invasion has one of the most preposterous giant monsters ever put onto film. While the films does offer up some regular sized spider goodness, including a man-sized version that is thrown onto one character who then has to make the over-sized puppet act. The title monster, revealed toward the the end, is a rather fake looking furry creation mounted on top of a Volkswagen Bug with its red tail lights serving at the monster’s glowing red eyes. It’s silly, ridiculous and outright goofy - and that’s why it gets remembered.  Bill Rebane directs the picture are a throwback to the giant monster movies from the Fifties. The film stars a gallery of has-been actors at that time: Steve Brodie, Robert Easton, Barbara Hale, Alan Hale Jr. and Christiane Schmidtmer. Famous for being part of Mystery Science Theater 3000, the Giant Spider of Giant Spider Invasion is a difficult visual to forget.

BRUCE, THE SHARK in JAWS
“That’s a twenty footer.” - Hooper “Twenty-five. Two tons of him.” - Quint

One creature in 1975 changed the face of horror and summer movies in 1975, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. The film frightens audiences, creates a world-wide fascinations with great white sharks and makes going to the beach seem like the most dangerous activity man could even endure. Based on Peter Benchley’s novel, the story features a small town, Amity, on an island off the north east coast that finds is water’s have become the feeding ground for a very large great white shark. The shark’s special effects were created by Bob Mattey famously worked only sporadically which Spielberg somehow manages to make work to his advantage. Not seeing the shark for most of the picture, but knowing the creature is there - just below the surface, only adds to the terror and suspense. When the shark finally appears in all it’s glory during the final real, it’s horror cinema in full force - the creature is frightening, huge and full of teeth - lots of large sharp teeth. Scary! When he roars up out of the ocean in full view of Sheriff Brody, he exclaims to Quint “You’re going to need a bigger boat” and a legend is born. For years after the success of Jaws, imitators galore flooded the theaters bringing all kinds of giant fish, animals and assorted creatures to feast upon man, women and children alike: Grizzly, Orca, Piranha, Day of the Animals, Prophecy and many more. The film is only marred by a series of sub-par sequels: Jaws 2, Jaw 3D and (the worse of the bunch) Jaws the Revenge.

DR. FRANK-N-FURTER in ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

A cult phenomenon that knows no equal, The Rocky Horror Picture Show - a sci-fi horror musical comedy cult classic - introduced the world to Tim Currey as Dr. Frank-N-Furter. A horror movie in only the slightest of its themes, it still contains a mix of aliens invading Earth and a mad scientist stitching together his own creation. In this case, the monster is Rocky and the mad scientist is Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the most outrageous, entertaining and fashionable incarnate of a Frankenstein myth. Supported by an equally zany cast, Curry and crew failed to reach an audience at the box office; however, they climbed to the top of the midnight showing cult phenomenon of the late Seventies. Dr. Frank-N-Furter has been delighting fans of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight showings since then, every weekend, somewhere in the United States.

ZUNI, THE DEVIL DOLL in TRILOGY OF TERROR

In March of 1975, Dan (Dark Shadows, Kolchak: The Night Stalker) Curtis directed the TV Movie of the Week horror anthology, Trilogy of Terror. Each episode starred Karen Black with the final episode, Amelia, containing a vicious little devil doll, a Zuni fetish doll. Amelia purchases a fetish doll as a present for her professor boy friend who teaches Anthropology. The doll is believed to house a Zuni hunter’s spirit inside it contained by a gold chain around its neck. When the gold chain falls off, the doll comes to life and begins chasing poor Amelia around the house. Zuni would go on to inspire other evil dolls that come to life such as Black Devil Doll from Hell (1984) and Chucky from the Child’s Play (1988) franchise. The Zuni doll has gone on to make brief appearances in an episode of The Venture Bros. (Are You There, God? It’s Me, Dean) and an episode of Stephen King’s Nightmares and Dreamscapes (Battleground).

Movie Monsters of 2010: Abby from Let Me In

For each weekday throughout December, Doc Rotten will be looking back at 2010 examining 20 Movie Monsters of the year. Check back each day and rate how successful the monster worked on the big screen, DVD or BluRay. On December 31, we'll look at all 20 Monsters in order of their popularity. Let's take a look at today's Movie Monster of 2010.

Vampires have gotten way to soft lately with the advent of Twilight. For had core fans, vampires seem to have lost their bite. Hammer Film’s Let Me In introduces a challenging spin to the vampire legend with a pre-teen blood sucker moving into a small town in the US southwest. Chloë (Hitgirl from Kick Ass) Moretz stars as Abby in Mike (Cloverfield) Reeves’ remake of Let the Right One In. Moretz’s Abby, at times both innocent and evil, begins a relationship with young Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) soon after she moves into her apartment in Los Alamos, New Mexico and slowly becomes his saviour and protector. Owen also begin to develop feelings for Abby even after learning her terrible secrets. Moretz’s performance is inspired and breathtaking, an emotional crash coarse that few vampire or genre films get. A top notch performance in one of the best horror films of the year.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: Victor Crowley in Hatchet 2

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Director Adam Green brings his creation Victor Crowley back to the big screen (briefly) for a sequel, Hatchet II. Crowley is a deformed, swamp-dwelling monster of a man who chops and hacks his way through most of the cast is deliciously old-fashioned slasher ways. He’s back for Hatchet II gorier and more gruesome than ever - in unrated glory. The much publicized small theatrical release in the States on October 1, 2010 was cut short when AMC theaters started receiving complaints and the film was quickly removed after only a few days. The film failed to make a mark on the horror scene in 2010 only achieving a footnote as a film that didn’t get it’s release. The film was released VOD in December and will be released on DVD and Bluray in early 2011.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: Sharktopus

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Roger Corman produces a Sy-Fy channel classic directed by Declan O’Brien called Shartopus. A brilliant combination of shark and octopus, as the title infers, the monster is as cheesy as it sounds constructed from subpar CGI special effect the only way Sy-Fy channel seems to know how. But, that’s also what makes it so … fun. It’s preposterous, from the story to the acting to the dreadful special effects. They all combine to make a whole that is better than the sum of its parts. A stand out of a stable of such beasties (Mega Pirahna, Gateroid, Dinocroc, Supergator, the list goes on and on), Sharktopus is a spectacular creation - a shark head and torso with the tail(s) of an octopus, all eight limbs. Throughout the picture, it gets to chomp on the cast, leaping out of the water onto boats, dry lands or in the air to snatch a Bungee jumpers dangling from her line high above the water. Brilliant.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monster of 2010: The Last Exorcism

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While the Last Exorcism belongs to Patrick Fabian as Reverend Cotton Marcus, it would not have been as effective without the extraordinary performance from Ashley Bell as Nell, the child suspected of being possessed by a demon. Brilliantly portraying Nell as both an innocent child with a heavy religious background and the same child possessed by the devil, contorting her body in horrendous ways, Bell is able to elicit sympathy and fear at the same time. Its a horrifying character arc that ends as disastrously as the audience fears it might, despite the lead character believing it is all a scam. Much like Jennifer Carpenter in the similarly themed The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Ashley Bell brings the fear, innocence and terror to the character to enable the film on which she is the subject to become one of the most frightening films of the year. The film grossed over $64 million on a budget of $1.8 million.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: Rare Exports

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Can Santa be scary? Many have tried over the years, but none have been as successful and original as the delightfully twisted Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Evolving out of a pair of celebrated shorts films by director Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports, Inc 2003 and The Official Rare Exports Inc. Safety Instructions 2005), Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is a darkly comedic gem about a young boy, Pietari (Onni Tommila), in the Korvantunturi Mountains who must save his village when a team of archaeologists unearth the hidden tomb of the real Santa Claus. This Santa isn’t found dressed up in the classic red and white jump suit – although he does end up being dressed in the costume – instead this Santa wears no clothes, walks barefoot through the snow covered forest and has a intense focused stare that will send chills down your spine. As a horror film, this is more in the vein of Gremlins than the slasher films listed above. Rare Exports is a dark comedy with horrific undertones and some seriously creepy Santas. The film, well worth seeking out, is being released this December by Oscilloscope Laboratories and is already fodder in the rumor mill for a U.S. remake.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monster of 2010: Sint

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Dutch film director, Dick Maas, who achieved fame after the success of the movies De Lift (1983 and 2001), Amsterdamned (1988) and Flodder (1986), returns to the big screen with the comedy horror hit, Sint (Saint). In Sint, Santa is replaced by a close holiday cousin named Sinterklaas – or Saint Nicolaas – who returns each December 5 having a full moon as a murderous evil ghost. The film, which is scripted more like an 80’s style slasher flick, has its holiday beastie dressed like a 1400s Bishop riding a large white steed and is accompanied by a band of holiday helpers called Zwart Pieten. Released in the Netherlands in late November, the movie broke native box office records for a film rated 16 and above bringing in an estimated $1.3 million on 96 screens. The film also benefited from some pre-screen controversy when the film and tv classification body Nicam filed suit against the filmmakers trying to get the posters removed from public display claiming the image would frighten younger children. The court ruled in Maas’ favor, the posters remained and the film is a runaway hit. At this time of this writing, there are no firm plans for the film to be released in the States, but surely it’s only a matter of time.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: Monsters

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In Gareth Edwards’ low-budget independent sci-fi movie Monsters, the alien creatures that occupy a large swatch of land between the United States and Mexico are rarely seen but ever present throughout the pictures run time. They’re being discussed, they’re the subject of warnings and signs, they’re affecting the escape of our leads back to the States and they’re being heard as they howl in the distance or in the night. Their affect on the plot and world in which the story lives is paramount. The result drives the story through to its conclusion when the characters (and the audience) finally gets to witness the monsters in full view. So far, only seen in scope: a tentacle here, a leg there and a destroyed carcus from time to time, when they’re finally revealed it is inspired. towering above the small gas station where the two leads are awaiting the army to rescue them, two of the alien creatures sing and circle around in the nearby distance - their bodies flashing in the night as lightning illuminates the sky behind them. With a minuscule budget and creating the effects himself on a lap top, Edwards manages to do what many larger budgeted films are unable to do - create a realistic world where alien monsters have already inhabited the Earth and attempt to coexist with the human race. Spectacular.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: Predators

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Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Til Dawn, Grindhouse) produces and Nimrod Antal (Vacancy) directs a sequel to the Predator franchise simply titled Predators. The film, starring Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga and Danny Trejo, follows a group of strangers stranded on a foreign landscape surrounded by otherworldly hunters - Predators. The alien creatures, originally introduced in John McTiernan’s Predator (1987) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, are back in full force - except now we are introduced to a new race of Predator, a bit more massive and a whole lot more cunning. The action is top notch and the creature effects are impressive. With a variety of characters, strong leads and a mix of Predator types, Predators is a rousing success and performed well at the theater, making over $126 million on a $40 million budget.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: Dren in Splice

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In the science gone mad film Splice, geneticists Clive Nicola (Adrien Brody) and Elsa Kast (Sarrah Polley) manufacture a creature spliced together from the DNA of a variety of different animals and beasts, including human DNA from Elsa. Hiding the resulting creature from the rest of their research team, they raise the female beast who grows to an adult at an increase rate. Giving her the name Dren, Clive and Elsa discover she is omnivorous and amphibious and has a tail with a stinger full of lethal poison. Later, she is revealed to have wings and a growing affection for Clive. Toward the end, she unveils a surprising evolution that threatens Elsa, spells doom for Clive and sets the events up for a sequel. The film opened to generally positive reviews but still only made $25 million on a $30 million budget. The creature is well designed and marvelously executed. Actress Delphine Chanéac brings a broad spectrum of emotion to Dren, rounding out one of more unique and challenging creature brought to the screen this year.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: Skyline

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In the alien invasion feature Skyline directed by Greg and Colin Strause, a small group of survivors struggle to exit Los Angeles and avoid capture. Skyline is a special effects film and little more, but it is also full of alien monsters - some fly, some are hulking beasts and others are squid-like uglies. Perhaps the most impressive of the batch is the huge “tank” monsters that roam the city fighting of ground troops, stomping cars, and sucking up any wandering humans dumb enough to be on the streets. Resembling a cross between the creature in Cloverfield and the critters found in the later two Matrix movies, the monster has electric blue glowing eyes, long legs, a big head and a gaping mouth that slings tongue-like tentacles out at helpless civilians. During a climatic battle, one such beast scales the side of the building the films cast is hiding in and traps them on the roof before meeting his end battling a jet fighter. The directors were also responsible for the second Aliens vs Predators movie and are the special effects team behind many of today’s science fiction spectacles: 300, Terminator 3, X-men, Fantastic Four, Day After Tomorrow and more.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: Paranormal Activity 2

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An angry spirit, a demon or the devil himself - it’s unknown for sure what the Rey family truly encountered in the supernatural spook-fest Paranormal Activity 2. But what is known is that a supernatural force has entered their home and has targeted Kristi Rey for possession in order to get to her son Hunter. The haunting includes a variety of strange and loud noises, furniture that moves on its own, and Kristi eventually succumbs to the spirits invasion. The father, Dan, is able to ‘exorcise’ the ‘demon’ from his wife, but the consequences of doing so are far greater than they could have ever imagined. A sequel to the phenomenon that was Paranormal Activity (2009), part two maintains the feel and pace of the previous hit film. The force the Rey family encounters is the same force Katie and Micah combat and both characters return briefly for this installment. Paranormal Activity 2 was a smashing success generating $163 million in revenue on a budget of $3 million. A third in the series was quickly announced for 2011.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: Piranha 3D

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After a year of teasing, Alexandre Aja’s remake of the classic Roger Corman 70’s film Piranha finally made it to the big screen , in 3D no less. Equally campy in the most spectacular ways, the entire cast (including Elisabeth Shue, Jerry O’Connell, Ving Rhames, Chritopher Lloyd and Richard Dreyfuss) are overshadowed by the toothy fishy monsters unleashed from the subterranean caverns by an earthquake. Once the action starts, there’s no hold back the piranha’s attacks as they start gobbling up the swimmers in Lake Victoria, Arizona. Created with CGI, the creatures are magnificently conceptualized and the havoc they create is gory and dark humor at its best. A sequel has been announced for 2011 titled Piranha 3DD - very fitting.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: Doctor Heiter from The Human Centipede

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Beginning its infamous underground movement in 2009, Tom Six’s The Human Centipede was finally released VOD, BluRay and DVD in 2010 to astonished and disturbed horror fans across the States. In the wildly original story, Doctor Heiter kidnaps a group of tourists and begins to sew them together anus to mouth connecting their internal organs to create a human centipede. Dieter Laser plays Heiter and, much like Peter Cushing’s Victor Frankenstein in Hammer’s Frankenstein pictures, he is more of the monster of the movie than the obscenity he creates. With a cool, calculative demeanor set to a short fused temper, Heiter is scientifically detached from the horrors he performs on the films unsuspecting victims, both in the film and in the audience. The sight of the 3 humans joined together to create the titular creature is the attraction to the movie; however, the inhumanity of Heiter’s actions are the true monster of The Human Centipede.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: The Crazies

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Based on an overlooked George A. Romero film of the same name from the Seventies, Breck Eisner’s The Crazies stars Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson and Danielle Panabaker as they face their entire township becoming infected with the “Trixie” virus, turning them into ravenous, bloodthirsty zombie-like creatures. The makeup for the “Crazies” was designed by Almost Human Studios who were also responsible for the infected in Quarantine. The creatures were frightening, their veins enlarged and visible through their skin and their eyes hyper-enlarged and bloodshot. The film was budgeted at $20 million and grossed $53 million in the States.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: The Executioner from Resident Evil: Afterlife

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Paul W. S. Anderson returns to the Resident Evil franchise, again with Milla Jovovich staring as Alice, with the 3D sci-fi horror zombie extravaganza Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D. In the film a small band of survivors trapped inside a prison, including Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe, and Wentworth Miller, come face to face with the mysterious giant zombie known as The Executioner. Taken from the video game Resident Evil 5, The Executioner, played by Ray Olubowale stumbles into L.A. and makes his way past the horde of zombies surrounding the prison safe house and begins to pound down the front gate as the survivors frantically search for another exit. Not long after he successfully breaks through the barrier, The Executioner faces Alice and Claire in a tour-de-force slow motion 3D battle.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: Angela from Night of the Demons

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Based on the original film of the same name from 1988, Adam Gierasch’s Night of the Demons tells the tale of Angela Feld (Shannon Elizabeth) who while throwing a Halloween party in a deserted mansion unleashes demonic forces. The freed demons begin to possess the partiers one by one. The cast also features Monica Keena, Edward Furlong, Bobbi Sue Luther and Michael Copon with a special cameo from Linnea Quigley, who had a prominent role in the original movie. Originally set for release during October, 2009, the film was held for a release in 2010, but only found limited release. It was finally released to DVD and Blu-ray to mixed reviews. The special effects and digital effects were created by Drac Studios.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: The Walking Dead

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Robert Kirkman's zombies in THE WALKING DEAD

One of the biggest successes of 2010 was AMC’s zombie TV series adapting Robert Kirkman’s comic book The Walking Dead. Produced by Gale Anne Hurd and developed by Frank Darabont, the 6 episode series is tense, dramatic, emotional, scary and full of gore. Horror on television has never looked this good. The zombies are some of the best zombies ever created (effects by Gregory Nicotero) for TV, movies - anything, ever. From the opening shot of a zombie girl confronting the show’s hero, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), to the attack on the survivor camp, the zombies are gruesome, realistic and bloody. The Walking Dead is an instant classic that will be talked about for years to come.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: The Wolf Man

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Benicio Del Toro as Lawrence Talbot in THE WOLFMAN


One of the most anticipated movie monsters of 2010 was the remake of Universal’s Wolf Man starring Benicio Del Toro as Lawrence Talbot cursed to become a werewolf. The film, directed by Joe Johnson and written by Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self, features astonishing make up effects by the legendary Rick Baker. Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving costar in the feature. The movie, budgeted at $150 million,  was released, after a tumultuous history of scheduling changes, on February 12th and grossed over $142 million. The story itself resembles closely the original story from 1941, but expands on its themes but loses the intimacy along the way. The creature make up is fantastic but is marred by the addition of CGI.

Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: Freddy Krueger

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Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

One of the most popular movie monsters from the Eighties and Nineties is Wes Craven and Robert Englund’s Freddy Krueger from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). In 2010, Samuel Bayer directed a remake of the slasher classic starring Jackie Earle Haley as a new version of Freddy Krueger. Released on April 30th by Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes with a budget of $35 Million, the feature grossed over $115 million but met with mixed reviews. Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer fashioned the script and Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy and Thomas Dekker rounded out the cast. The updated make up for Krueger went further in resembling a burn victim with the custom maintaining the classic green and red striped sweater and Haley made a frightening version of the scarred killer. “Why are you screaming, I haven’t even cut you yet.”