Each successive ordeal left this viewer shocked that the film got away with a 15 certificate and that is before a central character turns up as a maggoty corpse left to be chewed by foxes".We've fully embraced it as a teenage love story aimed towards a teenage audience," says Charles Steel, the film's producer.
These poems occasional evoke a sticky, maggoty feeling.
If you give in to its measured ebb and flow, you will find yourself in an intense, poetic world in which the simplest objects a maggoty sheep, a half-finished shed take on a quiet but magical luminosity.
The hawthorn blossom looks maggoty, or toothpaste-like (see first image).
Never hiding their flaws – One Eye's insatiable greed, his "maggoty nose" and Ray's stinking feet and turgid breath – she makes us care deeply for them.
But I think the exposure to death in Africa and the consequent intensity of life there — both maggoty and reanimating — is oddly reflective of conditions in early modern England.
Comics, science fiction, and fantasy conventions are nowadays something of a hardship for Gaiman — "like being a maggoty log at a woodpecker convention," he says.
Though I'm still trying to figure out the point of that maggoty stag.
She has masturbated in a museum; scrubbed at a pile of bloody, maggoty bones in a fetid basement; stood still while strangers put a gun to her head and stabbed her with thorns; and, in her best-known work, sat silently for seven hours a day, six days a week, as a succession of people lined up to bask in her aura at the Museum of Modern Art.
At a time when many chefs think they need to dial flavours up to 11, the subtlety here is sexy: seductive interplay between textures, various degrees of nuttiness, including what looks alarmingly maggoty but turns out to be clever – puffed wild rice.
Agoraphobic Sigourney Weaver lived vicariously through and was terrorised via her various screens in the thriller Copycat (1995), and I still shudder at the thought of Harry Connick Jr's maggoty emails.
