American International Pictures
Directed by Brian De Palma
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Criterion Collection)
Model Margot Kidder murders her date the morning after their one night stand. A neighbor across the way witnesses the whole thing through the apartment window and calls the police. They can't find the body, which was hastily hidden in a couch by Margot's ex-husband. The neighbor, also a newspaper reporter, convinces her editor to follow up on the story, but only if she uses a private detective. Her research reveals that Kidder was a recently separated conjoined twin. She follows her to a mental hospital where more shocking plot twists are revealed. Low budget Hitchcock homage even somehow managed to get Bernard Herrmann for the score. However, unlike Hitchcock, De Palma succumbs to his exploitative urges in the critical murder scenes. Drug-induced dream sequences muddy the narrative instead of advancing it.
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