SESSION: Monday 29th August at 7:30pm


Blow Out

(1981, dir. Brian De Palma, w/ John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz)

This stylish Brian De Palma thriller plays off the theme of the unsuspecting witness who discovers a crime and is thereby put in grave danger, but with a novel twist. Jack Terry is a master sound recordist who works on grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he does not know whom he can trust. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 3.73.73.73.7(IMDB rating)

Body Double

(1984, dir. Brian De Palma, w/ Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton)

Body Double will start at approximately 9:43pm, and finish at approximately 11:43pm.

Jake Scully comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet Sam Bouchard, a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the arrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Sam shows him his favorite neighbor, a well-built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 3.43.43.43.4(IMDB rating)