Craig Wasson, Deborah Shelton, Dennis Franz
A working actor finds himself house-sitting for a friend, becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman he's been eyeing through the telescope, and ends up in the middle of a murder plot.
DVD Release Date: March 6, 2001
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September 29, 2009A claustrophobic actor witnesses a murder while peeping at a beautiful woman through a telescope. This eroticized Hitchcock ripoff/tribute is fun at first, but the longer it goes on the more obvious it becomes just how wide the gulf between Brian de Palma and the Master really is.
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March 3, 2009DePalma rips-off Hitchcock once again, this time makes an uneven but enjoyable mixture between Vertigo and Rear window. a fun ride of eroticism, suspense and satire. great soundtrack by Pino Donaggio.
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August 26, 2008The story goes that De Palma got extraordinarily sick of his buddies Spielberg and Lucas making the big bucks, and of Coppola and Scorsese being revered as cinematic auteurs, and that his response was a big "fuck you" to Hollywood in the shape of Body Double. DePalma was now lik...( read more)
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March 22, 2008This is what would happen if Vertigo and Rear Window had a baby and it went into the porn industry.
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October 24, 2009This visual tour de force is easily one of DePalma's best. By throwing Vertigo and Rear Window into a blender, with a dash of sex and sleaze, we get a thriller that is one of my personal favorites of all time. The fantastic pairing of, the highly underrated, Craig Wasson and the ...( read more)
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September 27, 2009Saw it years ago...thought it was grusome of course...but remember it being very ...affecting.
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June 19, 2009What a strange and horribly dated film. It's actually really bad but kind of watchable in a sleazy and train-wreck sort of way. I suppose it's De Palma's homage to Peeping Tom, among others. It has all the ingredients that De Palma is attracted to but frankly he should be ashamed...( read more)
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