directed by Brian De Palma (1980)
Oh my God. What a crazy movie. I feel conflicted about how much I enjoyed this mess. I don't think it could be made today, it's too offensive and ignorant regarding transexuals and mental illness. It's such a lurid flick. I knew I was in for something different when the film started off soft core porno with Angie Dickenson lathering her boobs and snatch up in the shower all lasciviousness while watching a hunky bare chested man shave with a straight razor. It's bizarre slow motion with sugary muzak. BTW who uses a straight razor?!! Suddenly she's being attacked by another man in the shower who also has a straight razor, but that must be a fantasy, because next you see her in bed moaning while being piledrive humped by her husband.
That's all I wrote when I watched this back in February, so I think I'll have to watch it again. Sometime I'll have a De Palma fest and watch everything of his I've never seen and revisit the ones like this, that I liked. Lots of times though, a movie isn't nearly as good when you no longer have part of your brain trying to figure out what the plot is while you're watching.
I remember I kept thinking well this is just mental and preposterous, really similar to Argento in it's incoherency, but that didn't make me want to stop watching - far from it, I wanted to see MORE!
I really like Brian De Palma's flicks. I think he's a nut though. I read recently, that when he was making Carrie, for the final scene where Carrie is unleashing her fury at the school dance, he was told the fire hoses were too dangerous to use on scenes featuring the actors because the water pressure was too strong. I guess he yeah yeah whatevered that, because he did use the hoses, and PJ Soles got pasted in the face. The blast punctured her eardrum, and the pain made her pass out. She was deaf for 6 months.
He's most often compared to Alfred Hitchcock, and I can see that, because aside from the formalist similarities, Hitchcock was an asshole to his actors too.
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