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Now we come to the girls: Meg and Judy. Meg's murder is the most traditional of the lot. Girl? Check. Shower? Check. Knife? Check. There's a flair to its brutality, with Angela stabbing ''through'' the shower wall when Meg leans against it, carving her back right open. But the scene is mainly unique for having ''no tits.'' More on that later.
Judy, perhaps the most hate-worthy character in slasher history, suffers a death that I ''still'' wouldn't wish on my worst enemy in one of that history's most outrageous scenes. Judy's just finished making out with a boy in the cabin and is sitting on the bed when the POV killer enters. The killer forces a pillow over Judy's face (more smothering), and thrusts a sizzling hot curling iron into her vagina. This is both an exaggeration and an inversion of the standard "phallic slasher" rule. On the one hand, the killer goes so far as to give Judy the slut a literal [[Death
The movie itself does the same thing. As I alluded to above, there is no female nudity in this movie. Let that sink in. It's 1982, it's a slasher movie, it's a summer camp, and there are '''''no tits''''' to be found. On the other hand, there is ''plenty'' of male butt, beef and thigh on display, no to mention the famous full-frontal closing cock shot. As my brothers and sisters at [http://www.notlp.com/ NOTLP] pointed out, the boys wear shorter shorts than the girls. There is an ''all-male skinny-dipping scene'' in this movie. It's 90 minutes of built dudes wearing practically nothing, while the girls dress like nuns by comparison. Then a transgender person kills them all.
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