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Frances Sternhagen, John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer
In this wicked thriller from 1992, director Brian De Palma shamelessly borrows from Alfred Hitchcock (as usual) and several other filmmakers to create a shock-a-thon that plays like a film buff's high...( read more
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This thrillers' content is very disturbing, so not for the faint-hearted. An evil Dr performs strange experiments on children.
John Lithgow's disturbing and wicked multiple roles are the only appealing element of a tiresome thriller with dozens of themes previously displayed in Hitchcock films (freudianism, voyeurism, split personality, etc) Brian DePalma revered the master of suspense with good results ...( read more)
I'm not sure how this film got into my film collection, it's as corny as hell, but for that reason, I found it quite amusing.
This is one of those crazy little Hitchcockian thrillers that De Palma churns out between big-budget Hollywood assignments. Here, besides obvious nods to "Psycho" and a host of other movies, he finds time to reference his own "Sisters" and "Dressed To Kill". John Lithgow is great...( read more)
Plot twists galore and some great suspense. Not quite a masterpiece because of some of the over-the-top performances. But it's quite interesting and has some really cool scenes. Yup, a lot of it feels like Hitchcock, but that's a good thing. There's a sense of menace throughout. ...( read more)
I actually really liked this, it had layers and it took actual thought to understand much of the goings-on in the plot. I'd definitely watch it again.
I couldn?t help but find this movie again after finding out it was filmed in the San Francisco bay area. As is De Palma?s current career, this movie is quickly dismissed. However, I feel this movie is overlooked because of the cheese factor of John Lithgow playing someone with mu...( read more)
' Saw this from the free movie pass given to me by a radio station. This one is a concrete example of how traumas affect people's personalities.
