Brian De Palma hit the mark with DRESSED TO KILL (1980), a contemporary take on PSYCHO, but is less successful with this Hitchcock copy, which steals most of it's ideas from REAR WINDOW and VERTIGO.
Craig Wasson stars as a claustrophobic actor who's fired from a vampire film, catches his wife (Barbara Crampton) cheating on him and ends up housesitting for a guy he doesn't even know (Gregg Henry). There he witnesses his beautiful neighbor (former Miss USA Deborah Shelton)getting power-drilled by a creepy, facially-scarred Indian, and ends up in the middle of a complex murder plot, which also leads him into the adult film underworld!
The plotting stretches credibility to the limit, Wasson's idiotic and gullible character elicits no sympathy and the ending is terrible, but some of the porn scenes are well done (and funny!) and Melanie Griffith is great as porn star Holly Body, who is unknowingly tied into the murder. One whole scene is a music video for "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Real-life porn stars Annette Haven, Linda Shaw and Susanna Britton (as Barbara Peckinpaugh) are supposed to be in here, too, and Brinke Stevens can be spotted in footage from "Holly Does Hollywood."
Craig Wasson stars as a claustrophobic actor who's fired from a vampire film, catches his wife (Barbara Crampton) cheating on him and ends up housesitting for a guy he doesn't even know (Gregg Henry). There he witnesses his beautiful neighbor (former Miss USA Deborah Shelton)getting power-drilled by a creepy, facially-scarred Indian, and ends up in the middle of a complex murder plot, which also leads him into the adult film underworld!
The plotting stretches credibility to the limit, Wasson's idiotic and gullible character elicits no sympathy and the ending is terrible, but some of the porn scenes are well done (and funny!) and Melanie Griffith is great as porn star Holly Body, who is unknowingly tied into the murder. One whole scene is a music video for "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Real-life porn stars Annette Haven, Linda Shaw and Susanna Britton (as Barbara Peckinpaugh) are supposed to be in here, too, and Brinke Stevens can be spotted in footage from "Holly Does Hollywood."