Double ExposureYear: 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 | Victoria Jackson | |
Former celebrity appears | ||
Bad title | ||
Bad premise | ||
Bad acting | ||
Bad dialogue | ||
Bad execution | ||
MTV Editing | ||
OTS | ||
Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
Wanton sex | ||
Death associated with sex | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
No one believes only witness | ||
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
Music detracts from scene | ||
Death in first five minutes | ||
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? |