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| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: October 26, 1984 |
Starring:
Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith
Summary:
A struggling actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.
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Brian De Palma has gotten a bad rap on this one: the first hour of his 1984 thriller represents the most restrained, accomplished, and effective filmmaking he's ever done, and if the film does become more jokey and incontinent as it follows its derivative path, it never entirely loses the goodwill De Palma engenders with his deft opening sequences.
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Body Double isn’t trash, misogynistic or otherwise. It’s unrepentantly trashy – not the kind of film you watch while your parents or kids are in the house, or with your curtains open. But it’s also a complex, provocative suspense thriller that bears comparison with the three immaculate Hitchcock classics – Vertigo, Psycho and Rear Window – it gleefully drags through the sludge.
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Most of the movie lacks zest.
His point here seems to be that voyeurism can induce a trancelike emotional paralysis—a message feminists could appreciate if Body Double took less pleasure in the mechanics of mutilation, and that ordinary moviegoers could ponder if the characters' motivations were not so numbingly nitwit. Upscale sleaze—so what else is new?
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Apr 5, 2020
De Palma is magic. This film is a serious candidate for the title of "number one thriller" all times combined. And also one of the best movies all times combined.
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Mar 28, 2019
Mysterious and with a good dose of suspense, but also absurd and with certain doses of involuntary humor. Strange, isn't? But somehow, that mixture works.
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