Audiences at the time were horrified by the film’s graphic surgery scene, writes Clarisse Loughrey. But it’s gone on to inspire John Carpenter, Pedro Almodóvar and Billy Idol
, it too revels in suggestion and suspense. There are no cheap thrills to be found within its elegant, austere frames. It’s uncompromising in its glacial pace. But then comes the film’s infamous surgery scene – here the camera never breaks its gaze, nor is there any music to distract from what’s happening on screen. A scalpel cuts into flesh, tracing a crimson line across a young woman’s face.
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