Warning: SPOILERS for Novocaine are ahead!
Jack Quiad is an actor who is no stranger to blood and guts, as his ongoing role in The Boys (streaming with an Amazon Prime subscription) and appearances in the Scream franchise has given him a ton of experience with gory scenes. His new movie Novocaine is chock full of wild violence, and there was one scene in particular that grossed me out. And as he told CinemaBlend, Quaid had the same reaction.
CinemaBlend's Novocaine review praised the movie's action, which centers around Quaid's hero Nathan who has a condition where he doesn't feel pain. He can be injured, but he simply doesn't feel said wounds as they happen. As you can see in the video above, I spoke to the 32 year-old actor about his new movie, where she shared that Nathan being tortured by having his finger nailed ripped off truly bothered him. As he put told me:
I thought that I was going to be totally fine with this. But then there’s a scene, I won’t say what scene it is, but there’s one sequence involving my fingernails. And that was my line. I can’t believe I found a line.
Honestly, same. Any scenes in movies where people's finger nails are injured/tortured are really hard to watch. There's something about fingers and eyes that just give me the willies, and it sounds like Jack Quaid agrees. And that guy has seen all sorts of gore on set throughout the years. After all, he was stabbed 22 times at the end of Scream, and has seen people literally get ripped apart in The Boys.
Later in our same conversation, the actor revealed that he was similarly affected by a faux hand injury in the 2025 horror movie Companion. In his words:
On Companion there’s a stun where I had my hand slammed in a door and on this there’s something involving my finger nails. I think whenever it gets to my hands I’m a little ‘Eugh.’ … I think hands get to me. I never thought this was part of me
Honestly, who can blame him? While finger nail scenes are particularly horrifying on film, so are most hand injuries. Unfortunately for Quaid, he goes through a number of hand atrocities throughout the runtime of Novocaine. That includes a sequence with a grease fryer, as well as a scene with a knife from Novocaine's trailer.
Critics have been mixed on Novocaine, with certain publications wishing that the concept of a protagonist who didn't feel pain was pushed a bit further. As such, it should be interesting to see how it performs in theaters. I personally had a last watching the violent and hilarious project on the big screen, and it's one of my favorite titles from the 2025 movie release list so far.
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