Body Double [Import] (Blu-ray) R
You can't believe everything you see.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region B
- Released: July 15, 2014
- Originally Released: 1984
- Label: Imports
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Craig Wasson & Melanie Griffith | |
Performer: | Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley, David Haskell, Barbara Crampton, Lane Davies & Dennis Franz | |
Directed by | Brian De Palma | |
Edited by | Jerry Greenberg & Bill Pankow | |
Screenplay by | Brian De Palma & Robert J. Avrech | |
Composition by | Pino Donaggio | |
Story by | Brian De Palma | |
Produced by | Brian De Palma | |
Director of Photography: | Stephen H. Burum | |
Executive Production by | Howard Gottfried |
Entertainment Reviews:
A spectacularly sleazy send-up that finds the puckish, thin-skinned director confronting his critics and doubling down on everything that upstanding, respectable people hate about Brian De Palma films.
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The ARTery
Rating: 3/4 --
...De Palma's expectedly grandiose directorial choices go a long way towards keeping things interesting...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Body Double is an exhilarating exercise in pure filmmaking, a thriller in the Hitchcock tradition in which there's no particular point except that the hero is flawed, weak, and in terrible danger -- and we identify with him completely.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: C --
Sleaze dominates the thin plot and absurd story line.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
... "Body Double" finds Brian De Palma at the zenith of his cinematic virtuosity.
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Washington Post
...A voyeur's delight....[With] extended sequences of visual virtuosity...
Variety
...[BODY DOUBLE] goes too far, which is the reason to see it. It's sexy and explictly crude, entertaining and sometimes very funny....[Griffith is] one of the delights...
New York Times
Product Description:
Struggling, intensely claustrophobic actor Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) spends his spare time spying on an always-undressing beautiful woman while house-sitting at his friend's swanky Los Angeles bachelor pad. Then he notices a big ugly guy with a power drill is also spying on her, and Scully begins trailing them in a bizarre game that eventually leads to murder. To solve the mystery, Scully infiltrates the porn industry and stars in an X-rated video for 1980s band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, eventually linking up with adult film star Holly Body (Melanie Griffith), the key to all the strange goings-on. Director Brian De Palma delves merrily into his bag of cinematic tricks for this mystery, which comes off as a sort of sex- and sleaze-filled hybrid of Hitchcock's VERTIGO and REAR WINDOW. Griffith, then known mainly as the daughter of Hitchcock leading lady Tippi Hedren, earned fans and critical buzz with her refreshingly funny, sexy performance as the porn star. A pre-NYPD BLUE Dennis Franz appears as a director. Evocative use of L.A. locations and De Palma's creative camerawork help mask the less believable plot elements, as does a nice score by Pino Dinoggio.