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Body Double (1984)
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Even Brian De Palma's staunchest defenders had to swallow hard with this gaudily gory bauble of a thriller that is built around a gruesome (yet surprisingly wittily staged) stalking and murder involving a female victim and a killer with a giant power drill. This is De Palma at his most sensational, in a story about a B-movie actor with career problems (Craig Wasson) and a habit as a voyeur. He witnesses the aforementioned murder, then teams up with a porn actress (Melanie Griffith) to try and find the killer. De Palma has a blast going inside the porn film industry, and even films a pseudo rock video with one-hit wonders Frankie Goes to...
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I am really not sure what to make of this film. Director Brian De Palma seemed to put together a mashup that really goes all over the place and doesn't make too much sense, but I was stuck watching like a deer in the headlights.
First off, Jake (Craig Wasson) is just plain stupid. I guess that is why his wife was cheating...
(complete Body Double review by The Movie Addict)
Directed by Brian De Palma, Body Double (1984), is an intensely enjoyable, energetic, and entertaining movie in the Hitchcock style with the perfect mix of mystery and suspense growing from a sleazy web of claustrophobia, sexual frustration, voyeurism, grotesque murder, deceit, and most of all helpless anxiety.
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(complete Body Double review by David Hurlbert)
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(6/28/2007)
