In 1984, Brian De Palma terrified audiences with his stylish thriller, Body Double, a story that borrows heavily from Hitchcock’s Rear Window and yet manages to feel modern when told through De Palma’s stylistic perspective. Playing a major role in the film is John Lautner’s unforgettable retro-futuristic Chemosphere house. Perched on a pole high in the hills above Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, the home is so unique that filmgoers questioned its very existence — convinced that it was merely a model built for the movie.
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Body Double (1984)
Crime, Drama, Mystery | 114min | 26 October 1984 (USA)
6.8
Director: Brian De PalmaWriter: Robert J. Avrech, Brian De PalmaStars: Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg HenrySummary: Jake Scully comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet Sam Bouchard, a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the arrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Sam shows him his favorite neighbor, a well-built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police.
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Countries: USALanguages: EnglishBudget: $10,000,000 (estimated)