Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
Faye Dunaway plays a fashion photographer who takes kinky images of stylized violence for her spreads. Things take on a slight supernatural nature when she begins seeing real time murders through the eyes of a killer of her colleagues. The police including a young Tommy Lee Jones are sceptical to say the least.
An American giallo if ever there was one. If truth be told, if you are a fan of Italian murder mysteries then there's absolutely nothing here you won't have seen before, except with less gore. The story (John Carpenter co-wrote) is enjoyable enough and full of red herrings and it's great to see the likes of Dunaway and Jones in a film of this ilk. Irvin Kershner's direction is slick in what is a stylish thriller, if very seventies with that style, yet it's also a style that's very much ahead of the story's substance although even back then it took a dim view of exploiting sex and violence for mass consumption.
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