What an odd, sometimes laughable, movie, I was riding high after watching Blow Out and needed more De Palma in my life. Right from the first frame I knew this wasn't going to scratch that itch. Or maybe it did by the end?! De Palma, man. Always throwing me for a loop.

Anyway, it opens with hilarious Dracula bloody type font and then introduces what has to be the MOST hilariously awful lead actor in a major motion picture of all time. I mean this guy is the worst. What a long drop from an actor with presence like Travolts to this nobody. First off, he looks like a young Bill Maher. That has nothing to do with his acting ability but is a bit off putting. But this guy bops around like a big baby the whole movie I never wanted to root for him. He catches his wife sleeping with another man, she gives him this look like, "now what, you putz?" At that point I felt for the guy but then the rest of the movie plays out and I'm almost siding with the wife. This guy is a zero. Like he's a whiny pushover who deserves to be a pushover. Maybe that's the character but on top of that the acting choices this guy makes. Just mugging for the camera. I feel like if someone cut together a string of these "choices" it would make for one hilarious clip. Anytime he's looking into the telescope he keeps looking up and going ooh ahh and stuff. So weird.

Anyway, eventually the terrible acting grew on me in a Stockholm sort of way and actually fit the bill when the character decides to audition for a porn film and act in one so he can ask one of the stars to help him. That's right, he auditions, gets the part, and then we see a film within a film of him in this porno, pre-sex scene. We get as far as the makeout which is shot like its the most glorious makeout love sesh in the history of making out. Melanie Griffith is instantly taken. It also calls back the last time he did this, when he followed a woman all over town then saves her purse and then attacks her face with his mouth. That makeout scene was shot in such a way, with a fast camera spinning around them on a green screen I thought for sure it was a dream sequence. But nope, it was the real deal.

Okay I'm spending way too much time on this movie. Quickly....and here is where the spoilers come in. I knew the SECOND we saw a WIDE SHOT of this "Indian" that it was Gregg Henry in disguise. Maybe it's the HD or the advances in makeup since 1984, but it was clear as day. Also this movie has the unfortunate situation of Gregg Henry becoming a well known character actor who is at the very least sleazy, if not the bad guy. So when he was the buddy who got the lead this great place I was like no way there is something up with this dude. Oh and then you could tell it was him by the way he carried himself. Gregg Henry has this weird cock of the walk sort of swagger that you know its him. That was not a twist at all when the guy tore his face off to reveal him. It reminded me of Color of Night [spoilers coming for that movie] where I knew the second we saw the "guy" that it was really the girl. Instantly.

For as clear as that was, I was super confused by the other reveal, that he was the murdered lady's ex, he wanted the dude to be set up as a witness so he hired a look alike to dance like his ex wife in the window? Huh? Did not catch that. So if that really wasn't his buddies place did he also own that weird circle house? Also, is that house real?! Weird.