[crabapple]

Going back to Gothic for a moment, I noticed there seemed to be a similarity between the scene with John Polidori slamming his hand repeatedly onto the nail in the wall and the scene in Blue Velvet with Kyle McLachlan being beaten up by Dennis Hopper outside the car ("Feel my muscles!").

It's two different scenes, but both characters appear to be experiencing a liberation through pain, of sorts. Polidori is suffering his repressed love and seeks to distract himself by focusing on physical pain, and McLachlan's "Jeffrey Nothing" loses that last shred of the previous view of reality he was hanging onto.

I could be just imagining it, but I think of the two scenes as being very simlar.