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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Starts off as a total rip off/homage to Vertigo/Rear Window/Dial M for Murder then goes off to another plane and becomes something more, like a crazy Tales from the Crypt comic with a dash of Hollywood magic exposure. Great fun!

1984's "Body Double" isn't the best film of Brian De Palma still it's a tease of mystery and suspense all blended with sex and a creep tease to make it a watch even if it does seem like a parody of the Hitchcock films.You have Jake(Craig Wasson)a real Bill Maher look a like! who's a struggling actor who can only find work in Hollywood in B movie flicks, and the only way he can get thru life is to drink Jack Daniels! One day he's asked to house-sit at a beautiful hillside Hollywood apartment of a friend. And this would turn from some eye candy fun to a bloody view of murder! Jake has a telescopic peak into the bedroom of an actress named Gloria and night after night a striptease is given and thru the scope a third party is viewed by Jake and that's a crazy looking man who's a stalker! Soon this leads to a bloody murder and it opens up an underworld of X-rated film and porn for Jake as a woman by the name of Holly Body(Melanie Griffith)may hold the key to the truth of it all. Still this film despite it's suspense and erotic thriller themes takes an unexpected twist it's like it's a parody of a film within a film! Still this is a nice eye candy treat and a good watch clearly an 80's classic.

After struggling actor Jake Scully finds his girlfriend in bed with another man, he moves out and accepts an offer from fellow struggling actor Sam Bouchard to house-sit for a few weeks. Apart from getting to live in an ultramodern house, he also get to watch a neighbour do a sexy dance in front of her window every night at exactly the same time. He becomes infatuated, following her around and eventually meeting her. She also has another admirer however and while watching her one night through his telescope, Jake sees her murdered by this other man. The police are dubious about what he claims to have seen, but the case takes a bizarre turn when, while watching TV, he sees a porn star do the exact same dance he had watched for all those nights. He soon realises he has been an unwitting accomplice in a complex plot.De Palma has always referenced Hitchcock in his movies, and here, it's his rear window, and the concept is as bonkers and as brilliant as the decade it was made in.There are many interpretations of the films narrative, and this is why it demands repeat viewings. Is it all in Jakes head while he is suffering his bout of claustrophobia? So the only parts of the film that are real are the initial scene with him in the coffin, and then him being helped out of the coffin. After all, the majority of the film is almost dreamlike, thanks to the wonderful eye De Palma has, most noticeably the scene in the shopping mall where Jake sees the Indian following his victim from afar.The film can be seen as a wonderful epitaph to the decade that fashion, music and taste forgot, and no matter how garish the make up, clothes and sets are, it just adds so much t the narrative.It's a definite conversation piece, there are plot holes aplenty, but this just adds to the argument of where reality ends and the subconscious starts in the films narrative.And it also adds much evidence to my theory that 1984 was the best year for movies ever.It's a bonkers piece for sure, but it's thrilling, and never let's up the craziness.Essential viewing.

Poorly plotted Hitchcock rip-off, which is too often the case with De Palma. This one particularly suffers because the lead actor (Craig Wasson) is absolutely terrible. Who could have possibly allowed him to be the lead in a movie? He's so wishy-washy and unlikable. I mean, the guy is such a wimp that he almost has a heart attack due to his claustrophobia when he finds himself in a tunnel the size of my apartment. The only ace this movie has up its sleeve is Melanie Griffith at her absolute hottest co-starring as a porn star, and she doesn't even show up until an hour into the film. The plot revolves around Wasson peeping at the neighbor woman (Deborah Shelton) when he's housesitting for a guy he just befriended (Gregg Henry). He sees a strange man hanging around Shelton, and decides to get involved.