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Actor Jake Scullys world id turned upside down when comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man. Now Jake tossed out on the streets must try find somewhere to live while doing his best to hold on to a role in a low budget vampire film he is staring in but his claustrophobia had put that in jeopardy. Going between auditions and acting work shops Jake keeps bumping into Sam another actor and the two get chatting and Jake explains his predicament to which Sam has a quick but temporary solution he is going out of town for a bit and he needs someone to house sit a place he himself is house sitting. Jake jumps at the chance its like all his birthdays have come at once but the day gets even better when he is taken to the house which is up in the Hollywood hills over looking the city its an absolutely stunningly beautiful house and the location aint so bad either. Just when he thinks it cant get any better Sam lets him in on a dirty little secret he has himself his neighbor like to put on a little show each night at the same time and Jake can have a front row seat through a telescope and Jake is immediately entranced by her beauty and he sultry moves. The next night while tuning in for the show Jake witnesses an other peeping Tom and after that in the matter of a couple of days his life is turned upside down again.
I fell in love with the film the first time i watched it and after not watching it for a long time i still feel the exact same about it its just a wonderfully shot film and filled with suspense and intrigue its all very Hitchcockian i really like that word it just rolls off the tongue makes me feel like a film critic not someone who heard a word and thought one day ill use that in a sentence and people will be impressed
. There are a few moments that made me laugh like the ridiculous way Jake stalks the neighbor around the shopping mall steals her underwear from the bin and the obvious and awkward way he watching her on the beach but all that aside Body Double is a brilliant film its very dreamlike and matched with an equally dreamlike soundtrack your taken on a very mysterious journey.
I love that poster its simple but beautifully effective and now everyone thinks im a pervert