“Dolarhyde lurches forth and scrapes a knife across his throat...”
Try “Dolarhyde leaps forward and jams a knife through Will’s cheek”? Important because of how Will is referred to in ‘Silence of the Lambs’ as having a ‘face hard to look at’ as a result of this wound.

From the advent of cinema until about 30 years ago the reaction would have been absolutely nothing, so I think women are permitted a little time for redress.