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 (Craig Wasson) with career problems 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 is perfect in the role of a decidedly imperfect hero. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com [show more]
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Thriller co-written and directed by Brian De Palma. The story begins with struggling, out-of-work actor Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) recuperating after an attack of claustrophobia and spending his time spying on the dancing stripper who lives opposite the house he's staying in after splitting up with his girlfriend. His obsession grows when he witnesses the stripper, named Gloria Revelle (Deborah Shelton), being brutally murdered by an intruder with a power tool. Jake tries to assist the police in hunting down the murderer but soon finds himself a subject in the eyes of Detective Jim McLean (Guy Boyd) and becomes involved in a complex plot where nothing is as it first appears.
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