Double Exposure

1982

Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 4%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 4% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.9/10 10 1039 1K

prostitute dreams photography murder of prostitute murder slasher

Plot summary

A photographer for a men's magazine is haunted by disturbing dreams, in which he slaughters his models. When he learns that these models are dying in real life as they did in his dreams, he begins to go insane.

Director

William Byron Hillman Photo
William Byron Hillman

Top cast

Seymour Cassel Photo
Seymour Cassel as Dr. Frank Curtis
Michael Callan Photo
Michael Callan as Adrian Wilde
Frances Bay Photo
Frances Bay as Old Woman
Terry Moore Photo
Terry Moore as Married Woman
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
872.17 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 11
1.58 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 20

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 6 / 10

ALL I WANT IS A SIMPLE RELATIONSHIP

Reviewed by 5 / 10

Photographs and memories

First time I saw this film many years ago, I thought it was a pretty fair slasher film, but on second recent viewing, it's waned a bit - while Callan is okay as the central character, a men's magazine photographer suffering from bizarre and murderous apparent dreams, Jim Stacy as his knock-about brother, maimed in an auto-accident, is perhaps the film's highlight. The switch in dominance between Callan and Stacy's characters is interesting to see evolve, but it's a transition that's made difficult to follow due to the film's erratic narrative. Joanna Pettet gets undressed and even has a "When Harry Met Sally" moment with Callan in the back of his camper-van, as the only woman with whom Callan's emotionally fragile character can consummate.The violence is pretty extreme at times, with sado-masochistic homicide the flavour of the early eighties slasher film getting 'double exposure' here, full-frontal female nudity, mud-wrestling, even Cleavon Little in a minor supporting role as a cranky police chief. It's eclectic. The cast has surprising depth with producer Callan managing to assemble an enviable cast that includes big Bob Tessier as a bar manager, Pamela Hensley as a ball-breaking detective, Seymour Cassel as Callan's shrink, Misty Rowe as Stacy's squeeze, Sally Kirkland as a voluptuous hooker and blink-and-you'll-miss Terry Moore in a flashback dream sequence.Lairy wardrobe, colourful dialogue, pulsating synthesisers and tricky cinematographic effects momentarily distract you, but the narrative is so inconsistent and the editing (or perhaps scene sequence and continuity) so incoherent at times, that it never maintains any momentum. Highly stylised, the bold concepts and loud motifs (not to mention the substantial cast) should have made for a better movie all things considered, and yet, it's still no Brian DePalma psycho-thriller.
Reviewed by 5 / 10

Predictable Yet Well Shot

A photographer keeps having bad dreams where he has visions of him murdering many of his models. His amputee stuntman brother tries his best to keep his head afloat as the photographer starts a relationship with the woman of his dreams. Is the photographer really the killer? And will he make his new girlfriend his latest victim?Double Exposure is a wonky and uncomfortable mix of drama, police procedural, and slasher/giallo cliches. It wants to be a character driven psychodrama, but it's never quite deep enough. It doesn't succeed much as a slasher either due to the poorly paced suspense/attack scenes that tend to end on more of a whimper than a bang. To make matters worse, the final twist is telegraphed from a mile away and triggers more eye rolls than gasps.That said, Double Exposure looks like about 50 million bucks. There's clearly a ton of talent involved in this film and every shot looks like something from a film that's got a ton of money behind it. When all else fails, just turn off the sound and enjoy how the film looks.
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