- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 1980
- Country/ies:
- US
- Predominant Genre:
- Mystery
- Author(s)/Director(s):
- Brian DE PALMA
- Best Performance(s):
- Nancy ALLEN
- Angie DICKINSON
- Premiss:
- Mysterious, tall blonde woman murders one of a psychiatrist’s patients and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.
- Theme(s):
- Alienation
- Guilt
- Loneliness
- Original Sin
- Sexual Repression
- White culture
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Psycho
- Review Format:
- DVD
Rather contrived homage to Alfred HITCHCOCK - particularly his Psycho - that lacks somewhat in suspense and originality.
What it has, however, are excellent female performances (that these kind of female-in-peril movies usually lack) from Angie DICKINSON and Nancy ALLEN. They make their characters interesting and believable and we feel for them in their terror.
The film also lacks a theme other than the rather silly one of men wanting to be women, but who are refused the necessary sex-change operation and then kill those who are born women in revenge!
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