Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 0043396150126 Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 99 Release Date: October 03, 2006 Running Time: 114 minutes Sales Rank: 20466 Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: October 26, 1984
Product Description: Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/25/2007 Run time: 114 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com: 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 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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Rating: - Avoid this.......like the plague
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 ... Read More
Rating: - A bit trashy, hard to follow, yet in the end, it somehow manages to work
This murder mystery is very convoluted and moves so slowly at first that it is hard to follow. Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) is a struggling actor who has landed the part of a vampire in a low-budget movie. When he comes home and discovers his live-in girlfriend having a sexual romp in their bedroom, he is suddenly homeless. In an attempt to advance his career, he takes acting lessons and interviews for parts.
To his apparent good fortune, he meets another actor and is asked to take over a housesitting assignment. The deal appears even better when he is told that every evening at the same time one of the neighbor women does a semi-naked exotic dance. However, once Scully sees that another man is also watching he grows concerned for her safety.
Scully follows the woman in an extremely clumsy manner. When the other man that is following her snatches her purse, he pursues the man and gets the purse back. ... Read More
Rating: - Trash masterpiece from De Palma
A trash gem from Brian De Palma. Here, Rear Window meets Vertigo in the porn subculture of the 1980s Southern California. Jake, a bit actor in B films (played engagingly by Craig Wasson) finds his girlfriend sleeping with another guy and has to move from his home. A fellow actor needs someone (or so he says) to take care of his house while he is away on a trip, and Jake agrees to do the job. Before leaving, he shows him his favorite neighbor, a beautiful and sculptural woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake spies her with the house's telescope every night, becoming obsessed. He meets her once in the beach, and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the burglar runs through a tunnel. Eventually, Jake witnesses her brutal murder through the telescope by someone dressed as an Indian. But, if you've seen Vertigo (and know De Palma has been paying homage ... Read More
Rating: - Enigmatic Murder Mystery
The film begins in a graveyard. A dead body opens its eyes and roars. They are filming a horror movie. Something has gone wrong. Jake returns home to find a surprise. After a drink he finds a new home. He auditions for another job; he meets a new friend who offers him a house-sitting job. Sam says he must water the plants every evening. A telescope shows a neighbor. [Does this remind you of "Rear Window"?] Scully notices something and follows that woman in her car, then to a shopping mall. He notices some man following her, but calls attention to himself. [This film is too slow paced.]
They walk on the beach, that man grabs her purse and runs away. Scully can't stand an enclosed space like a tunnel. [Does this recall "Vertigo"?] The story ambles on. Jake sees a threat to Gloria and tries to help her. But the dog attacks Jake! Why doesn't it attack the intruder? Jake is too late to help Gloria. The police ... Read More
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- Avoid this.......like the plague
- A bit trashy, hard to follow, yet in the end, it somehow manages to work
- Enigmatic Murder Mystery
