“In such an intense physical act like murder, between the victim and the murderer there is something sensual, something erotic deep down. There is something, of course it is not developed all the way, but there is something that ties together the two acts, that is the erotic and the bloody one. The knife for example is phallic, which we all know, and therefore the link between the two orgasms. The death orgasm and the sexual one.”

- Dario Argento