Body Double is a 1984 film directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, and Dennis Franz. The film is a homage to Alfred Hitchcock's films Vertigo, Rear Window, and Dial M for Murder. The original music score is composed by Pino Donaggio. The film is marketed with the tagline "You can't believe everything you see". The film was remade in India as the Hindi film Pehla Nasha (1993)
The film begins and ends with the protagoni...
more
Body Double is a 1984 film directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, and Dennis Franz. The film is a homage to Alfred Hitchcock's films Vertigo, Rear Window, and Dial M for Murder. The original music score is composed by Pino Donaggio. The film is marketed with the tagline "You can't believe everything you see". The film was remade in India as the Hindi film Pehla Nasha (1993)
The film begins and ends with the protagonist, Jake Scully (Wasson), playing the part of a vampire on the set of a low-budget horror film. Both times, he is unable to rise from a coffin due to claustrophobia. Home early from the day's shoot, he comes upon his girlfriend having sex with another man. Homeless, he heads to an acting workshop, where he makes a new friend, Sam. When Sam offers to give him a house-sitting gig in a splendid Modernist bachelor pad high atop Hollywood, he also points out a neighbor, whose nightly antics can be viewed by telescope. This wealthy and beautiful...
less
