The Big Shave
A young man walks into a meticulously clean and sterile bathroom and proceeds to shave away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene. Many film critics have interpreted the young man's process of self-mutilation as a metaphor for the self-destructive involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War.
- Year: 1967
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Horror
- Studio: Tisch School of the Arts (NYU)
- Keyword: vietnam war, bathroom, man, self mutilation, razor blade, shave, horror parody, short film, independent film, body horror, blood, counterculture, anti-war
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Cast: Peter Bernuth