Description:Out-of-work actor Jake Scully finds himself lost in a maze of illusion and intrigue after spying on his sexy neighbor - and witnessing her gruesome death. Melanie Griffith stars as the mystery woman at the center of the secret in director Brian De Palma's controversial thriller. Craig Wasson costars. Extras include 4 all-new featurettOut-of-work actor Jake Scully finds himself lost in a maze of illusion and intrigue after spying on his sexy neighbor - and witnessing her gruesome death. Melanie Griffith stars as the mystery woman at the center of the secret in director Brian De Palma's controversial thriller. Craig Wasson costars. Extras include 4 all-new featurettes with new interviews with De Palma, Griffith, Deborah Shelton, Gregg Henry, and Dennis Franz.
While house-sitting, an unemployed actor becomes a Peeping Tom on a stripteasing neighbor. When he witnesses a murder one night, his curiosity leads him into the sordid world of higfh-class pornography for an answer to the mystery.
Struggling, intensely claustrophobic actor Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) spends his spare time spying on an always-undressing beautiful woman while house-sitting at his friend's swanky Los Angeles bachelor pad. Then he notices a big ugly guy with a power drill is also spying on her, and Scully begins trailing them in a bizarre game that eventually leads to murder. To solve the mystery, Scully infiltrates the porn industry and stars in an X-rated video for 1980s band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, eventually linking up with adult film star Holly Body (Melanie Griffith), the key to all the strange goings-on. Director Brian De Palma delves merrily into his bag of cinematic tricks for this mystery, which comes off as a sort of sex- and sleaze-filled hybrid of Hitchcock's VERTIGO and REAR WINDOW. Griffith, then known mainly as the daughter of Hitchcock leading lady Tippi Hedren, earned fans and critical buzz with her refreshingly funny, sexy performance as the porn star. A pre-NYPD BLUE Dennis Franz appears as a director. Evocative use of L.A. locations and De Palma's creative camerawork help mask the less believable plot elements, as does a nice score by Pino Dinoggio.... (more)(less)
"Porn star Annette Haven was originally cast for the role of "Holly", but Columbia Pictures decided to turn her down when their executives saw what kind of movies she had been making. Haven later stated that she was happy because of that, because she hadn't liked the script and hadn't liked to be in a film with gory violence.
Brian De Palma originally planned for this to be the first Hollywood film to boast unsimulated sex scenes. The studio thought differently.
Dennis Franz based his portray"
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