Body Double / Der Tod kommt zweimal (USA 1984) [uncut]

1 Movie, 3 Audio Tracks: English, German, French

Subtitles ((idx, sub): English, German, French, Spanish, Italian

DVDRip | XviD 1610 kbps, 703x368, 25 fps | MP3 CBR 128 kbps | 1600 MB | 1h 49min

Producer, Director and Co-Writer: Brian De Palma

Genre: Thriller / Mystery / Crime / Horror / Erotic

A seduction. A mystery. A murder.

Jake Scully, an unemployed actor, is asket to house-sit at a luxurious hillside apartment. As a bonus, the home offers Jake a telescopic peek into the bedroom of GloriaRevelle, who performs an arousing striptease. When Jake discovers another man is also spying on Gloria, he begins an obsessive surveillance of her. Soon a grisly murder leads him into the world of X-rated film where he meets sexy porn queen Holly Body, who is a key to the crime...

With reference to Hichcock's "Rear Window" and "Vertigo" (acrophobia turns into claustrophobia) De Palma has created a gripping adult thriller of eroticism and horror.

Eine Verführung. Ein Geheimnis. Ein Mord.

Jake kann nicht glauben, was er da durch sein Telekop im benachbarten Haus beobachtet: Eine junge Frau wird auf die widerlichste Art und Weise abgeschlachtet. Doch anstatt die Polizei zu alarmieren, macht sich der nur selten gebuchte Darsteller selbst auf die Suche nach den Mördern - und trifft dabei die Porno-Aktrice Holly. Und diese scheint mehr über die Hintergründe des Mordes zu wissen, als sie ahnt...

In seinem Erotik-Thriller mixte Hitchcock-Verehrer Brian De Palma geschickt Motive aus "Das Fenster zum Hof" und "Vertigo" (allerdings leidet der Protagonist bei De Palma unter Platzangst und nicht wie bei Hitchcock unter Höhenangst).

Une séduction. Un mystère. Un meurtre.

Jack, jeune comédien au chomage souffrant de claustrophobie, occupe pendant quelque temps l'appartement d'un ami. Profitant de la vue panoramique, il observe sa charmante voisine, Gloria, dont il ne tarde pas à devenir fou amoureux. A force de l'épier, il assiste un jour à l'assassinat de la jeune femme...

Brilland hommage au maitre du suspense Alfred Hitchcock ("Rear Window" et "Vertigo").

“"Body Double" is an exhilarating exercise in pure filmmaking, a thriller in the Hitchcock tradition in which there's no particular point except that the hero is flawed, weak, and in terrible danger -- and we identify with him completely. The movie is so cleverly constructed, with the emphasis on visual storytelling rather than dialogue, that we are neither faster nor slower than the hero as he gradually figures out the scheme that has entrapped him. And the casting of a Hitchcockian average guy also helps.

...The film opens with a satire on vampire movies, includes a Hitchcockian cat-and-mouse sequence, and even borrows some of the clichés of 1940s thrillers, including a detailed recapitulation at the end, complete with flashbacks. There is also a sharp 1940s look to the cinematography, which uses dramatic lighting, tilted cameras, and carefully constructed shots to make the style part of the story.

...The movie is a genuinely terrifying thriller, in which an almost clockwork plot brings the hero and the killer together without a single logical glitch. De Palma is at home in this genre.

...With "Body Double," he has his most airtight plot. He also has his almost unique courage to go over the top -- to push scenes beyond the edge of common sense and into cheerfully heightened and impassioned overkill. The burial sequence...or the photography in the tunnel...are so uninhibited that they skirt the dangerous edge of being ridiculous. But because the story's so strong, they're not. They work.

rogerebert.com”

Cast/Darsteller/Avec:

Craig Wasson - Jake Scully

Melanie Griffith - Holly Body

Gregg Henry - Sam Bouchard

Deborah Shelton - Gloria Revelle

Guy Boyd - Det. Jim McLean

Melanie's

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