The camera zoomed in to reveal what the two occupied vats contained: a Frankenstein combination of women and pigs, mismatched human and swine limbs stitched together for some unknowable purpose. They had no heads; at the stumps of their necks were bundles of wires and clear tubes pumping blood, as if to keep the bodies alive absent a brain to maintain those functions. In response to this sight, Rose delivered, in a trembling whisper, her longest section of dialogue and also the bit she’d struggled with the most during filming. The take Clarence Crockett went with in the final cut never quite
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