In its 40th year, "Body Double," one of De Palma's most underloved masterpieces, is a film that still knows how to get the audience (and its director) off.
Although a disaster at release, "Body Double" was the incredible climax to a decade of movies that were both carnivorously violent and erotically charged, a smut-thriller renaissance.
Critics were frequently scandalized, and audiences seldom showed up, with De Palma labeled as a style-over-substance vulgarist and provocateur.
Yet these films, "Body Double" most of all, were pure New Hollywood, equal parts reverence and rejection, all exposed flesh and shimmering artifice.
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