THURSDAY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, HOSTED BY CRITICS KEN HANKE & JUSTIN SOUTHER
Brian De Palma's Body Double will screen at 8pm Thursday (April 9, 2015) at The Carolina, movie theater six, in Asheville, North Carlina. The screening is free, as part of the weekly Thursday Horror Picture Show, which is hosted by Mountain Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.
Hanke wrote a review of the film in advance of the screening in which he says he is "not quite a four-square fan" of De Palma. "My introduction to him was Phantom of the Paradise (1974), which I saw first-run at least twice and then many times during the days of the midnight cult movie. It probably remains my favorite — nearly matched by Carrie (1976). Those are my De Palma touchstone works — the ones I never tire of and have no reservations about. After that, it gets tricky, but I’m finding increased admiration for much of his subsequent work and am slowly reassessing it. Well, I’m reassessing some of it. I have no interest in revisiting Scarface (1983) or Raising Cain (1992). That brings us to Body Double, which I more or less enjoyed when it came out, but didn’t think was by any means great. I liked it enough, however, to pick it up for five bucks when I came across it in a Wal-Mart dump bin — and then promptly left on the shelf for years before getting around to actually watching it. I’m sorry I waited. I’m not sure it’s a great film, but it might be a great movie, and it’s definitely great De Palma. It’s also neck and neck with his much-maligned The Black Dahlia (2006) for the screwiest picture he ever made — but it’s a lot more fun."
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Updated: Thursday, April 9, 2015 12:20 AM CDT
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Updated: Thursday, April 9, 2015 12:20 AM CDT
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