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Episode: Bodies of Horror: Episode 89 - Novocaine (2025)
Description: It always make Nichole happy when a film featuring a disability – a rare disease, no less! – is on the big screen. In the freshly baked, just released film Novocaine, a man with a rare disease Congenital Insensitivity to Pain (CIP) goes hard and brutal to save the first person he has had a true, intimate connection with.We see: accommodations! Disclosing your disability! Real brutal fights! Pie!Additional Reading:> Congenital Insensitivity to Pain (CIP) - Symptoms, Causes, Treatment | NORD> Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis - WikipediaWant to shar...