Writer-director Brian De Palma ?maintains a fever pitch from start to finish? (Leonard Maltin) with this ?steamily libidinous and extremely bloody thriller? (Newsweek)! Starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy All... more »en (in a Golden Globe®-nominated performance), this taut psycho-sexual chiller is a razor-sharp tale of passion, madness and murder that?s as ?scary as the devil [with] suspense to spare? (Playboy)!
Fashionable Manhattan therapist Dr. Robert Elliott (Caine) faces the most terrifying moment of his life, when a psychotic killer begins attacking the women (Dickinson and Allen) in his life? with a straight razor stolen from his office. Desperate to find the murderer before anyone else is hurt, Elliott is soon drawn into a dark and disturbing world of chilling desires. And as the doctor edges closer to the terrible truth, he finds himself lost in a provocative and deadly maze of obsession, deviance and deceit? where the most harmless erotic fantasies?can become the most deadly sexual nightmares!« less