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Body Double (1984) Movie Reviews
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Slant Magazine (Eric Henderson)
Body Double , while not his finest, is the best candidate as Brian De Palma's signature film....read the complete Body Double (1984) review at Slant Magazine (Eric Henderson)
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iF Magazine (Peter Brown)
Channeling a Hitchcockian combo of Vertigo and Rear Window , Body Double was back in a time when Melanie Griffith was still hot and it was OK to believe that pornography had some sort of an evil connection to snuff films....read the complete Body Double (1984) review at iF Magazine (Peter Brown)
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Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)
By the time Brian De Palma made 1984’s Body Double, he seemed to have taken the Hitchcock homage about as far as he could take it. This time out, he most explicitly references a trio of Hitch’s films ( Vertigo, Rear Window, and Psycho ) that he had...read the complete Body Double (1984) review at Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)
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by C. E Harris on September 28, 2009
Loved this film, always will!! VINTAGE DEPALMA, and the mind f&%c of the 80's. Too cool. What wasn't cool was the Amazon.com's reviewer, Marshall Fine, calling Frankie Goes To Hollywood "One hit wonders." They had 4 #1 records in the UK and at one ...
by M. P. Cronin "coo... on January 16, 2009
I've been after the complete soundtrack for ages! The complete score has been released by Intrada.com - Official release and limited to 3000 copies - ...
by Conal on August 13, 2007
I gather that the film was labeled 'misogynist' when it came out. Let's hope all that predictable chest-beating has died down enough so that one can see the film for what it is -- a comic delight with unexpected and unaccountable moments of the sublime ...
by R. A. Bean "filmf... on June 22, 2007
While ...
by T. Dimock on February 19, 2007
Well, maybe 4.5 stars. The first time I saw this movie I was totally taken in by the clever plot. Yes, there is a major scene that doesn't quite work, but I commend Brian de Palma for admitting this in the Featurettes. These four featurettes are just ...
by John Baranyai "Bo... on September 19, 2006
This is one of the worst films Brian De Palma has ever made. First you have a homeless actor, then he gets place to stay , then he watches his neighbor doing an erotic slow dance through a telescope then she gets killed and the he hooks up with a porn ...
by Dubyac99 "MC Whit... on September 06, 2006
...with my parents.
I'll never forget seeing this movie in the theaters with my parents. We happen to see the quite young daughter of a really good couple friend of my parents, right before we went into the theater to watch this. My parents had no idea ...
by Michael D. "Mikey... on August 15, 2006
Let me put it like this, this movie is not a big deal, a head scratcher, please, HELL NO.! I just like it cause it FUN, I mean Melaine Griffith as a Porn Star is so funny ...more Camp than Thrills for me and Frankie goes to Hollywood ...
by Kevin Stanton "st... on September 05, 2005
This movie I consider to be akin to 'Vertigo' by Alfred Hitchcock. The pace is a little on the slow side with a lot of non-verbal action pulling the story along. It also mimics 'Rear Window' in that the main character witnesses a murder. In this case ...
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