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Wes Craven---was that the briefest nude scene in film?


Cathy Tyson's breasts were exposed for what a second? Or less?
The mix of eros and horror is about the best chemistry in the genre and yet Wes, a talented man, didn't quite find the mix. Now if Jack Hill who did COFFY with Pam Grier had done this...


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maybe Sondra Locke's in Josey Wales.
Half a second maybe.

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Nope, the briefest nude scene is in "Slither", when the girl in the bath is attacked by the worms. There is one moment--it lasts barely a few frames, you can hardly measure the time it is so small, and most people probably missed it--where you see her nipple. It is so brief that the MPAA didn't see the need to list nudity as part of the R rating.

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It's called restraint.

I mean, what do you want? Porn/horror? There's plenty of that out there. Find anything from Jess Franco. Or Vampyres (1974 Jose Larraz, which is actually a really good movie) or Black Candles (1983 Jose Larraz). Check out The Sinful Dwarf. Or if you wanna go for the 'natives' angle, find any of those cannibal movies- Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox, or Eaten Alive (the Umberto Lenzi one, not the awful Tobe Hooper one of the same name) which might have the most gratuitous sex/nudity including some ritual gang bang as well as a totally naked Janet Agren.

I think Wes knew what he was doing and if he wanted to go make a porno he could.

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I don't believe those were actually Tyson's. When they were exposed, her face was not shown. Whenever her face was shown, her chest was not. In other words, while there was a very brief nude scene in this film, Tyson's breasts were featured zero.

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