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Hello, what about the dead woman in the landfill?


This is one of the weirdest films staring known Hollywood stars, what makes it so interesting. "Wild" Bill Paxton takes the cake though. He has an orgy with three gigantically fat women while covered in, I don't know rotting chicken gravy. He mentioned that he nearly gags when he has to eat this like slop on set. But one thing I always seem to forget until I watch the art film again every so often, as I do with Eraser Head, is the dead woman Gus (Paxton) finds one day randomly in the garbage heap, as he found his accordion and other things there, it's his little treasure trove apparently. She is bluish and dirty and Gus looks around, Marty's not nearby and starts licking her dead nipple. I forget this most likely because like most disturbing stuff, I tend to block it out of my mind. I was watching Aliens last night, lead me to this, and to that scene. That is by far the edgiest, craziest, most foul part of that movie and just wanted to share that this movie by far goes beyond and out there, not as much as Society, but close. I think films like this need protection, people are talking about destroying copies, are you all Nazis? Do you know what you're saying? I may not think this stuff is my cup of tea for daily watching, but it has social merit and it's a lampoon of societal norms. Necrophilia, mutations, depravity, hopelessness, defeat and loss, these are topics avoided by movies like a plague, but this one seems to embrace them all. The strangeness comes from the fact that all this is under the context of a dark comedy, so it can be harder and stranger to swallow. Ultimately, I think the film is a Paxton show piece, as he seems to embody the spirit of the film, dark, horrific, and incurably insane.

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no, i am not a nazi & it's rude to even imply it

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i need this one on blu-ray

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