What if your body had a zipper? Would you dare unzip it?
Direction
Kaplan's clinical eye turns breakfast into surgical theater.
Acting
Denis Lawson's mounting panic is masterclass in repression.
Practical Effects
That zip prosthetic will haunt your mirror for days.
Director
Jo Ann Kaplan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Channel 4's 'The Devil's Eye' series, this typified late-80s UK experimentalism where public broadcasting funded genuinely unhinged shorts.
Kaplan reportedly refused to explain the zip's 'contents,' insisting the horror is in what we imagine fills our own void.
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