Tag: Zoe Lund

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  Special Effects (1984)

  September 30, 2023

  1980s, Crime, Drama, Movies About Filmmaking, New York, Noir, Thriller

  What I enjoy about Larry Cohen is how he approaches things as a writer: the story’s gotta have a hook! Released in the same year as Brian De Palma’s Body Double, Cohen’s film Special Effects (1984) is a comparable twist on a Hitchcockian thriller. The hook: What if a movie director was a murderer? (A… Read.