The Naked Kiss

“Great little moment where Shock Corridor is on a marquee. Goodbye.”

“Then, more movies to recommend. Naked Kiss. I’m crazy, and when I was a kid, like, 20, I wrote a Naked Kiss script, a remake, which should stay unpublished and undone and unseen. But the level of influence that the work of Sam Fuller had on my work, on my mind, on my imaginary, is total. Naked Kiss, Sam Fuller, one of the greatest directors who ever lived.”

“The Naked Kiss, Sam Fuller. Probably one of my favorite opening sequences of anything—a bald lady beating somebody up. That's camp, but also I think that David Lynch was really inspired and influenced by Sam Fuller and you can see that, you know, if you go back using this as a lens to watch something like Twin Peaks. Small town secrets, hypocrisy, not something to be missed.”