 The effects team who created the "dissolving head" effect for Docs  murder mentioned in an interview that the director had originally  told them that he wanted to do the scene in one unbroken shot,  meaning they had to build a head that was both convincing and also  would "melt" the way they wanted it to. They lamented the fact that,  while they did the best they could with what they had, the director  ended up using a cutaway shot anyway, which would have given them  the opportunity to make the scene much more realistic.