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While taking a shower, Kate Miller, a middle-aged, sexually frustrated New York housewife, has a rape fantasy while her husband stands at the sink shaving. Later that day, after complaining to her psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott about her husband's pathetic performance in bed, she meets a strange man at a museum and returns to his apartment where they continue an adulterous encounter that began in the taxicab. Before she leaves his apartment, she finds papers which certify that the man has a venereal disease. Panicked, Kate rushes into the elevator, but has to return to his apartment when she realizes she's forgo...
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tten her wedding ring. When the elevator doors open, she's brutally slashed to death by a tall blonde woman wearing dark glasses. Liz Blake, a high-priced call girl, is the only witness to the murder and she becomes the prime suspect and the murderess's next target. Liz is rescued from being killed by Kate's son Peter, who enlists the help of Liz to catch his mother's killer as Detective Marino who's in charge of the case is uncooperative in the investigation.
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De populaire therapeut Dr. Robert Elliot uit Manhattan krijgt te maken met de angstigste momenten van zijn leven wanneer een psychotische moordenaar de vrouwen in zijn leven aanvalt..met een uit zijn praktijk gestolen, scheermes. Elliot is vastbesloten om de moordenaar te vinden voordat er nog meer slachtoffers vallen. Tijdens zijn zoektocht stapt hij echter een duistere wereld binnen en raakt hij verzeild in een dodelijk labyrint van obsessie en misleiding, waar onschuldige erotische fantasieėn kunnen veranderen in dodelijke seksuele nachtmerries.
In this film that combines lute slick premises with lute gore, a lonely wife follows her shrink's advice and seeks comfort in a stranger. After a seductive, dangerous encounter, the wife meets a homicidal maniac. The victim's son and the prostitute who discovers the body team up to track down the killer, a tall blonde woman with a trenchcoat and a razorblade.
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Brian De Palma , whether you love him or hate him, always has a knack for choosing composers. Whether it's the twinkly, sexy romanticism of Pino Donaggio in " Blow Out ," " Body Double ," and " Dressed to Kill ;" the brooding eroticism of Bernard Herrmann in "Sisters" and " Obsession ;" or the more off-kilter experimentalism of Ryuichi Sakamoto in " Snake Eyes ," " Mission to Mars ," and "Femme Fatale;" De Palma knows how to match the musician with the material, almost seamlessly. Even his big budget Hollywood job, " Mission: Impossible ," which had a last minute replacement score cooked up by Danny Elfman , remains one of that composer's greatest, least heralded efforts. And that knack seems to have continued, with Film Music Reporter noting that the filmmaker has brought on Dario Marianelli, of " Atonement " and " Jane Eyre " fame, for his latest project, an erotic thriller called
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