The Big Shave is a 1967 six-minute body horror short film directed by Martin Scorsese.

Prompted by the film's alternative title, many film critics have interpreted the young man's process of self-mutilation as a metaphor for the self-destructive involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War.

[7] The music accompanying the film is Bunny Berigan's "I Can't Get Started".

[8] The film was produced at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, shot on Agfa color film donated by Palais des Beaux Arts.

[9] The short's use of violence, music and montage would become trademarks of Scorsese's future work.