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Body Double
Part of the special series NACHTBLENDE
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With DER TOD KOMMT ZWEIMAL (German distribution title), De Palma takes his meta-referential and Hitchcock-inspired thriller art to the extreme and delivers his most provocative film. A demanding but great fun reflection on supposedly vile art, voyeurism in Hollywood and desire as the binding agent of this bloody melange.
Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) is working as an actor on the set of a B-movie when he suffers a claustrophobic fit and goes home. There he catches his partner and her affair in bed, flees again and finds himself homeless in LA. When a friend offers him his fancy flat to rent temporarily, he accepts with thanks. Through a telescope, he looks out over the Hollywood Hills in the evening and, in particular, into the flat of Gloria Revelle (Deborah Shelton), who undresses at the same time every day. But on the second evening he realises that he is not the only observer ...