Oh, was it supposed to be a horror flick? Oooooppps! I saw this on the big screen and when I wasn't grossed out by some tacky gore, I was laughing at the stupidity of the so-called plot and the pretensions of the film to being artistic. The maggot scene and the room of barbed wire really stand out as some of the funniest in horror history, though the scene with the professor is particularly delicious for its pretentiousness, using oblique camera angles in a misguided attempt to be unsettling, but winning awards instead for best comedy performance by Jessica Harper's hair. No need to discuss the acting, especially Joan Bennett's.
