SYNOPSIS
In this Brian De Palma film that combines Hitchcock’s slick premises with modern-day gore, a lonely wife (Angie Dickinson) follows the advice of her shrink (Michael Caine) and seeks comfort in a stranger. After a seductive, dangerous encounter, the wife meets a homicidal maniac. The prostitute (Nancy Allen) who discovers the body and the victim’s son (Keith Gordon) must track the killer.