Double Exposure

Year: 1982

Director: William Byron Hillman

Written by: William Byron Hillman

Threat: Psychopath

Weapon of Choice: Knife

Based upon: Original

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The tyranist's thoughts
When I picked up Double Exposure I expected it to be a T&A slasher. The cover promised it, the idea promised it. What I got instead was a half-assed attempt at a movie that fails miserably.
There's a photographer who is having bad dreams and headaches. The big problem is that his dreams are about killing people and in real life those people are ending up dead. So he starts a new relationship with an attractive woman. Hmmm. I wonder how long it will be before she ends up dead?
The idea, which was bad in the first place, is botched in the delivery by terrible editing and a lot of confusing dream/reality crossovers that don't make much sense. This looks lower budget than it probably was and just never delivers. Throughout the movie I kept getting the sense that in all likelihood the director/writer would wake up in the morning ask himself what would be fun to film that day and do it. There just isn't any coherence and when the killer is finally revealed it is not only anti-climactic, but stupid. Stay away from this one.

Total Skulls: 14

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears skull Victoria Jackson
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise skull
Bad acting
Bad dialogue skull
Bad execution skull
MTV Editing
OTS skullskull
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex skullskull
Death associated with sex skullskull
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer skull
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence skull
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes skull
x years before/later
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood hits camera
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell? skull