Railsback has nothing but praise for Carrie Snodgress who he says helped him elevate his performance to untold heights. When I knew she was going to play Augusta, I couldn't have been happier. Her name takes the film beyond the exploitation tag that I know we will be fighting all the way through. Carrie is momma. We work so well together and we are both wholeheartedly trying to understand our pivotal roles.
Any film dealing with such subject matter has to be violent and use grisly imagery.
The one sequence I've had the hardest time over is the moment where Ed dons his skin suit complete with breasts and vagina. But while it's repulsive to me, it was of singular importance to Ed's state of mind. When he dances in the moonlight wearing the spoils of his crimes, he's free and completely himself. In many ways it's his apotheosis, his reason for being. He has a good eye and that's what I've needed most because I can't look at myself outside a scene.