Body Double (Widescreen Special Edition)
by Brian De Palma
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Actor: Craig Wasson, Deborah Shelton, Gregg Henry, Guy Boyd, Melanie GriffithDirector: Brian De Palma
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Unknown
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Body Double (Widescreen Special Edition)
Movie Review: Avoid this.......like the plague
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie was absolutely B-R-U-T-A-L. I cannot believe that this came out a year after Scarface. Brian De Palma must have been burnt out or something. Maybe he fell asleep during the editing process and some studio exec hijacked this film, sprinkling it with gratuitous nudity and violence. Either way this movie is a sloppy mess. It has not aged well at all. Anybody involved in this must have to shield their eyes in embarrasement whenever it comes on television.
To begin with, the acting is absolutely atrocious. The lead actor, Craig Wasson, (now staring in Sasquatch Mountain) a dead ringer for Bill Maher of HBO, makes the wierdest choices. Mostly he just looks confused. Maybe its the script but you think he would show some type of emotion when he comes home to find his wife having random sex with some stranger. If it was me I'd probably be in jail for assault or worse. Instead he just silently closes the door and leaves, going immediately to a bar where he proceeds to fall off the wagon.
This kicks off the film and sets into motion his need for a place to stay. Within a few short scenes he has a new friend named Sam and a convenient new place to live, a bizarre home that looks like a UFO overlooking the Hollywood Hills. The gig comes with one condition, that he be home every evening to water the plants. WTF? It also gives him a view in a neighbors home, where a bombshell puts on a strip tease every night. Soon Bill Maher becomes a regular peeping tom, who wouldn't, but notices another man watching as well. This strange character can only be described as a cross between Freddy Kruger and Micky Rourke from Sin City. Bill knows that she might be in danger but can't tell her exactly how he knows this, since nobody likes to be thought of as a sexual pervert after all. When he finally does approach this woman, the encounter is beyond unbelievable. I'll spare you the details but it involves them nearly having sex in a tunnel after he becomes claustrophic chasing Freddy Kruger to recover her wallet. Again, WTF?
Mostly things just go downhill from there. At one point he steals her panties out of a garbage can. At another point he tracks down porn queen Melanie Griffith who proceeds to tell him that she'll do basically do anything for him but have sex with animals. Normally I hate to spoil a movie for anybody but I do need to offer a strong piece of advice. If you are squimish, avert your eyes when Micky Rourke/Freddy Kruger begins to drill the bombshell into the floor of her bedroom. All of this is witnessed by Bill Maher from the floor of her living room as he is being attacked by a rabid dog.
Anyway this might be the worst movie I have ever seen. I stongly advise you to skip it.
Summary of Body Double (Widescreen Special Edition)
Brian De Palma invites you to witness a seduction...a mystery... a murder. It's BODY DOUBLE a spine-tingling look at voyeurism and sexuality from the modern master of suspense. Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) an unemployed actor is asked to house-sit at a luxurious hillside apartment. As a bonus the home offers Jake a telescopic peek into the bedroom of Gloria Revelle (Deborah Shelton) who performs an arousing striptease. When Jake discovers another man is also spying on Gloria he begins an obsessive surveillance of her. Soon a grisly murder leads him into the world of X-rated films where he meets sexy porn queen Holly Body (Melanie Griffith) who is a key to the crime. De Palma has createda gripping adult thriller of eroticism and horror!System Requirements:Running Time: 114 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating:?R UPC:?043396150126 Manufacturer No:?15012Even 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 Hollywood. Wasson is an unlikely leading man, bland and pasty, but he's perfect in the role of a decidedly imperfect hero. --Marshall Fine
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