Brian De Palma's first released movie as a director and writer, this movie is all about models, murder and multiple points of view. Sure, it doesn't all work, but it's a first try for a creative of staggering genius that would soon be regularly making suspense magic throughout the 70s and 80s.
It's about a prankster named Otto (William Finley) who is making an adult movie.
It's also about Chris (Jared Martin, The Lonely Lady), who is in love with Karen (Margo Norton) but can't marry her until he can pay for his divorce. That's why he's making the movie with Otto.
But where it gets weird is that the murders may start as jokes, but suddenly become real. Or maybe they don't. In fact, you can't even trust who you think may have been killed.
So while it seems like Karen has stolen money from her friend Tracy (Andra Akers) and come on set to deliver it to Chris, only to be stabbed in the eye with an ice pick in a scene right out of a giallo. Chris finds her body and starts tracking down the killer but then we start to see things from multiple perspectives.
A young De Palma may not have been fully ready to make such a complex film but you have to credit him for trying. The themes in this movie and the style that he employs to show them to the viewer would become the very things that would soon make him a success.
It's about a prankster named Otto (William Finley) who is making an adult movie.
It's also about Chris (Jared Martin, The Lonely Lady), who is in love with Karen (Margo Norton) but can't marry her until he can pay for his divorce. That's why he's making the movie with Otto.
But where it gets weird is that the murders may start as jokes, but suddenly become real. Or maybe they don't. In fact, you can't even trust who you think may have been killed.
So while it seems like Karen has stolen money from her friend Tracy (Andra Akers) and come on set to deliver it to Chris, only to be stabbed in the eye with an ice pick in a scene right out of a giallo. Chris finds her body and starts tracking down the killer but then we start to see things from multiple perspectives.
A young De Palma may not have been fully ready to make such a complex film but you have to credit him for trying. The themes in this movie and the style that he employs to show them to the viewer would become the very things that would soon make him a success.