The film Performance (1970), the first feature of directors Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, was a big influence on this movie, which was Tony Scott's first feature.
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First of two collaborations [to date, August 2015] of actress Melanie Griffith and director Brian De Palma with the second and final film being The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).
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Adult film actress Holly Body took her stage name from Melanie Griffith's character in this movie.
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Steven Bauer: Uncredited, as the assistant director of the adult film "Holly Does Hollywood".
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In the Frankie Goes to Hollywood porno film sequence, one of the S&M guys who carries Frankie's lead singer to the bar wears a very close approximation of Gene Simmons' KISS outfit from the "Love Gun" era.
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Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho (adapted into American Psycho (2000)) references this film many times. It is one of Patrick Bateman's favorite movies, and he's rented it over thirty-seven times.
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Brian De Palma was not happy with the way that the chase on the beach was filmed.
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Porn star Annette Haven was originally cast for the role of "Holly", but Columbia Pictures decided to turn her down when their executives saw what kind of movies she had been making. Haven later stated that she was happy because of that, because she hadn't liked the script and hadn't liked to be in a film with gory violence.
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Debut cinema movie of actress Barbara Crampton.
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Make-up applied to Gregg Henry's face in order to turn him into the unrecognizable Indian took around 3½-4 hours each application. The prosthetics process required many make-up tests, a lift, latex, a full belly attachment, teeth plates, and a complete hair-piece.
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"Body double" is a film industry term and relates to the thriller plot and certain story elements. The Collins English Dictionary define the term as "a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face" while the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language define a 'body double' as "a movie actor who substitutes for a leading performer, especially in distance shots or scenes not involving the face, such as close-ups of a portion of the body."
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Breakthrough film role of actress Melanie Griffith who got nominated for a Golden Globe Award for this film for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture.
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The set for the Frankie Goes to Hollywood sequence in Body Double (1984) was also used the following year for the night-club scene in Fright Night (1985). Both films were produced and distributed by the Columbia Pictures studio.
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First feature film to shoot at the Rodeo Collection shopping mall complex at 421 Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA.
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Rumours developed and lasted for years that director Brian De Palma had many actresses up to his house to perform the erotic masturbation sequence from this picture.
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The Psychological Phobia that Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) had was not Vertigo (1958) as in the Alfred Hitchcock film that partially inspired this movie but "claustroPhobia" but this film was not titled with such a psychiatric term as "ClaustroPhobia" like with such earlier films as Phobia (1980), Frenzy (1972), Psycho (1960), Vertigo (1958), and the later ArachnoPhobia (1990).
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Deborah Shelton's voice was dubbed by actress Helen Shaver.
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Cast members David Haskell, Russ Marin, and Lane Davies all appeared on the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara. Barbara Crampton was on Days of our Lives and The Young and the Restless.
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The movie was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award in 1984 for Brian De Palma for Worst Director but lost out to John Derek for Bolero (1984).
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The picture was controversial for its adult film themes, and a woman's gory murder with a large, phallic power drill. Director Brian De Palma's earlier film Dressed to Kill (1980) features a woman murdered gruesomely with a razor, which was similarly controversial.
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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