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Stacey Nelkin in Season of the Witch
By swenson | August 30, 2009
I just wrote a post for my Horror Examiner archive on Halloween 3, the film everyone hated because Michael Myers wasn’t in it, and was watching the movie again for reference. My post explains why I actually like the film, feel free to read it here.
But when watching the movie I keep coming back to the odd decision on the awkward nudity with Stacey Nelkin. I’ve always like eighties horror nudity, partly because it has to do with the taboos of my childhood, but also because it feels sexier than all of the plastic you see exposed today. That may be just my age catching up with me.
Stacey Nelkin was completely hot, similar to a Jamie Gertz with thinner lips and she also reminds one of the lead female in Sword and the Sorcerer. It was obvious she should be nude at some point in the film because of her upper proportions, but then all we get is a blurred shot of her behind a shower stall and Tom Atkins pulling one part of her lingerie down to expose a nipple. What?
That happens to be my beef with Season of the Witch. Not that Michael Myers doesn’t show up and start slashing up bodies, but that Stacey Nelkin isn’t fully nude. At the very least we should have gotten a full tit shot.
So what went on behind the scenes? Was there not enough money in the budget to persuade her to show her entire body? I find that hard to believe. Was it some executive that said no to such a scene? Was there a nude scene edited out? With a despised and ignored film like Season of the Witch, I don’t know if we’ll ever get those answers.
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