#Gregg Henry

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Slither (2006) dir. James Gunn

Day 13 of 31

[brokehorrorfan]

Body Double will be released on Steelbook 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray and Digital) on September 24 via Sony. The 1984 neo-noir erotic thriller is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Brian De Palma (Scarface, Carrie) directs from a script he co-wrote with Robert J. Avrech (A Stranger Among Us). Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, Melanie Griffith, and Deborah Shelton star.

Body Double is presented in 4K with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Archival EPK interviews with director/co-writer Brian De Palma and actors Craig Wasson and Melanie Griffith

The Seduction featurette

The Setup featurette

The Mystery featurette

The Controversy featurette

"Relax" Body Double music video by Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Still Gallery

Theatrical Trailer

Jake Scully (Craig Wasson), an unemployed actor, is asked to house-sit a luxurious hillside apartment. The home offers Jake a telescopic peek into the bedroom of Gloria Revelle (Deborah Shelton), who performs nightly. When Jake discovers another man is also spying on Gloria, he begins an obsessive surveillance of her. Soon a grisly murder leads him into the world of adult film where he meets, Holly Body (Melanie Griffith), who is a key to the crime.

Pre-order Body Double.

[depalmafan]

Just Before Dawn (1981), dir. Jeff Lieberman.

[georgeromeros]

Femme Fatale (2002) dir. Brian De Palma

[hellyeahgeorgekennedy]

Gregg Henry and George Kennedy in Mean Dog Blues (1978)

[lobbycards]

Payback, Mexican lobby card. 1999

[green-light-kid]

“People around here like peace, but when it comes to justice, they’d rather someone else take care of it.”

VOYAGERS! “Bully and Billy”

[thepillovvbook]

Body Double (1984) Dir. Brian De Palma

[thehitchhikerguide]

Season 2, Episode 6: Videodate

Let me start out by saying this is one of the best episodes I've seen so far. The sleeze, the revenge plot, crazy 80's visuals...all perfect for a Hitchhiker episode.

The famous guest star this week is Shannon Tweed, known for being in some not-so-recognizable movies and also for being Gene Simmon's wife. I know her from Hot Dog...The Movie, which I guess is a must see for anyone who has ever been a skier or just likes a lot of full-frontal in their movies. The main male character is played by Gregg Henry, who looks to have a decent acting career, but I didn't recognize him. I thought he maybe looked like a low rent James Woods.

We start out with a woman who has very 80's hair watching a video dating service tape of a guy who is making it out to be his first time doing something like this. She is charmed by his vulnerability.

You can see by her joker-like smile, he has sealed the deal. He takes her out to an art exhibit and I have to say this is something I would love to go to even now. There is an area where you can smash a TV:

I mean, that is a really fun date!

Then we see the exhibit of a hot new artist named Monique. Wait, what? It's always weird when I hear other characters on TV with my name, since I don't hear it too often. I guess with a Canadian show, it was just a matter of time.

This is an art exhibit I would love to go to. People with TV heads that play some sort of strange video. It's creepy and disturbing and I'm all in for it.

This one represents the woman TV head's fantasy of running off with another man (shown on the TV). Of course our male character decides to man-splain to his date and also mention that he knows the artist. She seems to be watching this conversation behind him, unamused.

At least I think that is the artist...right? I guess they don't say but it seemed obvious at this point.

By now, the date is going really well.

Well that was a cool art exhibit so I kind of get it, even though he looks like a creep whose hair is just hanging on for dear life. She seems pretty vulnerable and mentions to him that she doesn't want this to be a one night stand. He tells her what she wants to hear...

...then immediately rushes her into a cab. After she is gone, we find out that wasn't even his apartment! He has been paying his friend who is a doorman to use people's apartments for these sleezy videodates.

As he drive away, we see something we haven't seen in awhile.

Oh yeah I almost forgot, there was also this weird image and some video game noise. Not sure what this is, his car is in a video game now?

Haha, as usual, perfect butt is on display. Man, he looks like he could double for George Michael in this shot. Anyways, we see the main character interacting with the Hitchhiker. He refuses to give him a ride.

Also, we are over 8 minutes into the episode before he shows up! We learn that this main dude is named Jack Rhodes. He has a lot of disguises and thinks he is the master of the illusion. But Jack is not the only one with tricks up his sleeve. Yes! Comeuppance! Comeuppance!

So this guy Jack is actually a salesman at an electronics store. He likes to brag to his coworkers about these conquests.

Co-workers Joey McIntyre and Wallace Shawn are not impressed.

We see the female video artist at the store as he is making a sale using his dynamic personality. She is still observing his behavior with disgust. When he gets home he notices a package at his door.

Wait a minute, am I watching Lost Highway now?

We get a good look at his apartment and his "last known photo" board and notice something a little weird.

Nice, huh? But what I'm not showing is that he has a section on this board labeled "foxes" and there are no photos under there.

He settles in to watch the mysterious tape.

Oh no, why does it look like Videodrome now? How many movies are in this?

Honestly I would be crapping my pants right now.

I mean I know it's a hot babe, but this video is still very disturbing.

Anyways, it's Monique, the artist in her underwear. She is saying her name is Barbara and that she wants to go on a date with Jack. Does he think this is from the video dating service, because I wouldn't think they just plop unmarked tapes in front of his door. I thought you had to go to a place to watch the tapes. Well despite this, she's a fox and we've established he's never been with a fox so he is up for anything.

Hmm, now it looks like Blue Velvet. I should probably stop obsessing over these movie references.

Their first date is playing video games. He plays a round and then she sets out to beat his score. She is the original gamer girl! Maybe she WAS creating a videogame from videotaping his car.

I immediately recognize the video game sounds to be from the game Centipede, however the game they show is shooting the letter E for some reason.

Maybe it's also an eye test, who knows. Defeat Enron!

She cuts the date off with the promise that they will see each other again. She invites him to her place for dinner. The building looks run down and this elevator...

I know, but now it looks like we are in an Adrian Lyne movie! Okay I'll stop.

She's cooking him dinner and he is being a total gentleman.

It's not a Hitchhiker episode without someone leering.

Monique changes in a dominatrix-type outfit under her clothes. They have dinner and retire to the bedroom. Jack immediately lets Monique tie him to the bed.

She reveals her sexy outfit and asks if he wants to play a game called Blastoff. I mean, it sounds pretty sexy right? Sounds like code for something else?

She puts on this neon metronome and says he has 1 minute to free himself or he will blastoff. Pretty cryptic.

This thing keeps booping faster and faster as Monique explains that she knows how he treats other women. Jack is upset and sounds like he wants to kill her, demanding she free him. The metronome goes even faster and then...

...his genitals explode? It looks like he dies in ball of flames. Wow what an ending!

Oh wait there's more.

I guess she had been filming this whole thing for her newest art installation. The people watching the exhibit seem confused, maybe they've never seen an episode of The Hitchhiker before.

There is an announcement showing the artist Monique is there and we get this big reveal.

It's Barbara! I mean, I knew she was the artist all along, were we only supposed to get that now?

Anyways, The Hitchhiker is leaving the art museum telling us that Jack Rhodes used the state of the art in video to get what he wanted (really, VCRs state of the art?) but when he had to do it for the sake of art , he went to pieces. Haha! Good one Page! An actual joke! I think he's enjoying Jack's suffering a little more than he should.

Let that be a lesson to everyone...pick up hitchhikers.

As I said before, this was a great episode that had it all, even the confusing ending. I mean, what actually happened to Jack and how did he explode like that? It's episodes like this that keeps me coming back for more, so until next time, be nice to people named Monique!

[honeysucklepink]

Moonlighting Rewatch, S1E4: "The Next Murder You Hear"

Synopsis from Wikipedia: "Maddie and David investigate the on-air shooting of a radio talk-show host. Although David thinks the case will be great publicity for the agency, Maddie is unsure whether to take it when she learns that the host was having an affair with a married woman. The host soon turns up alive, having faked his own death to keep the affair from his boss, but is then accused of the murder of his lover's husband, who was also his boss. Both the host and his mistress hire Blue Moon to prove their innocence, and Maddie and David disagree over who they believe actually did it."

Original Airdate: March 19, 1985

Fun Fact (esp. for Gleeks): Guest star Quinn Fabray's dad!

Rewatch window is from 8 pm eastern Tuesday, November 7th to 8 pm eastern Wednesday, November 8th!

[spockvarietyhour]

Harve Presnell and Gregg Henry

[sloshed-cinema]

Body Double (1984)

Movie tailing sequences from Vertigo to The Departed often play on anxieties over whether our protagonist will be discovered or made in some way.  Body Double’s Jake Scully makes the bold choice to not even attempt to conceal the fact that he’s stalking someone.  Hitched up with some new eye-candy to ogle through a convenient telescope by a fast friend, Jake quickly determines the woman he’s been peeping on is in imminent danger.  The best path to help her?  Follow her so closely and obviously that mall security gets summoned to deal with the creeper.   Jake proves himself a useless waste of space through and through, constantly thinking he’s making slick moves and always proving himself wrong.  He clunkily manages to infiltrate the adult filmmaking world, though his pitch to hotshot adult film actress Holly Body as an alleged producer is hilariously milquetoast and exposes him once again.  Truly, what better way to win someone’s trust is there than to lie about offering them a film deal, bring them back to your place, send all the wrong signals, and then awkwardly pivot to a confession about how everything up to that point has been a lie.  Master negotiator at work.  

Whether he intends it or not—interviews seem to imply he’s being entirely sincere—Brian De Palma is a master of camp in the film.  A slow start explodes into pure schlock when Jake kisses Gloria after their encounter with the Indian, the camera revolving around them time after time as these perfect strangers kiss and grope passionately.  It’s an ecstatic glimpse into this mousey loser’s life as he meets his object of fixation and saves the day in his own eyes.  He’s made it big for the first time, the world swooning around him.  Heightened too is the phenomenal kill of Gloria Revelle, the biggest drill-bit ever made plunging theatrically through her body and all the way out of the ceiling of the floor below, her blood raining down on the unfortunate Jake.  But the true climax comes with the porn video Jake shoots, a fantasia of hot bodies and leather coming together in the best screen usage of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Relax” of all time.  De Palma’s sign-off affirms the irreverence of the material, blood washing over boobs before it all fades to black.  This is willful, petulant transgression.

THE RULES

SIP

Jake looks into the telescope.

Claustrophobia moment.

Wide shot of a building of some sort.

Gloria’s shades go off or on.

BIG DRINK

Jake reacts audibly to something.

Jake gets caught in his stalking routine.

[brokehorrorfan]

Body Double's original soundtrack is available on vinyl for $40 via Waxwork Records. Shipping in February, the score is composed by Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Don’t Look Now, Blow Out).

The 2xLP album is pressed on 150-gram red and blue colored vinyl. It's housed in a gatefold jacket with film laminate gloss coating featuring art by Robert Sammelin and an 11x11 insert.

[feralgodmothers]

Mitchum Huntzburger or Donovan Galpin?

Donovan Galpin, for sure.

The man might be a little emotionally constipated, but at least you could tell he truly loved his son.

Meanwhile Logan was in the hospital after he nearly died, and Mitchum had no interest in bothering to even show up for a visit. True, the near-death experience was a result of something incredibly stupid, but dude, c’mon - that’s your SON.

And Logan’s sister said that Logan “wouldn’t have expected a visit from him anyway”. Mitchum’s honestly the kind of guy who should have never even gotten laid, much less had a family.

[babadork]

[swampflix]

The Not-So-New 52: Teen Titans – The Judas Contract (2017)

Welcome to The Not-So-New 52, your digital Swampflix comic book (adaptation) newsstand! Starting in 2007, DC Comics and Warner Premiere entered the direct-to-home-video market with animated features, mostly in the form of adaptations of well-received event comics or notable arcs. This Swampflix feature takes its name from the 2011 DC relaunch event “The New 52,” and since there are (roughly)…