Timothy Galoty & the Dead Brains featured collisions of bones, flying flesh and landscapes grown from pendulous breasts.
Sir Tony and social historian Dr Cassie Newland maintained a safe distance from the flying flesh to keep the audience informed about the authenticity of the team's task.
How powerful and simply disgusting would the flying flesh and blood of countless lawn-mowered zombies in Braindead (1992), or the flying head-drilling spheres of Phantasm (1979), be were they created using computer imagery?
It has to be said that those of a squeamish disposition would be best to give this book a miss as it is teeming with such dark details. 'A corpse makes a good lunch,' writes McDermid, before going on to examine the catalogue of creatures that are drawn towards dead human flesh - maggots, cheese flies, flesh flies, coffin flies, blow flies, beetles, moth larvae and mites.
N. vitripennis has a holarctic distribution and is a generalist that parasitizes a wide range of calyptrate flies, including blow flies, house flies, and flesh flies.
On the Japanese side of things, the Brombergs and their sushi chef, Toshi Ueki, present what they call whole fish sashimi, arranging the artfully carved squiggles and dominoes of flesh (flying fish one night, sea bream another) around the fish's skeleton.
Filth flies include houseflies, little houseflies, blowflies, bottle flies and flesh flies.
Fannia species are invading carcasses at an advanced stage of decomposition, which arrive to corpses after the blow flies and flesh flies.
Beat a zombie into submission with his severed arm if you will, but there better not be any flying chunks of flesh or spray of body fluids.
Conversely, when Martin has his first erection — partly inspired by the tennis player Gabriela Sabatini — and asks his equally young friend Padraic what's happening, Padraic's expansive reply (wonderfully delivered by Ian O'Reilly) immediately floors you: "So you started to pitch the old tent, eh? Flying the flesh flag.
Flesh fly (family Sarcophagidae), any member of a family of insects in the fly order, Diptera, that are similar in appearance to the house fly but are characterized by blackish stripes on the gray thorax (region behind the head) and a checkered pattern of light and dark gray on the abdomen.
