Special Effects

1984

Action / Drama / Horror / Thriller

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 43% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 1779 1.8K

movie business snuff model acting

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Plot summary

Reality and illusion collide as megalomaniacal filmmaker Chris Neville murders a young would-be actress, then sets about making a feature about the deed, casting the deceased's clueless husband as the patsy, and finding a dead ringer to play the late actress.

Director

Larry Cohen Photo
Larry Cohen

Top cast

Zoë Lund Photo
Zoë Lund as Andrea Wilcox / Elaine Bernstein
H. Richard Greene Photo
H. Richard Greene as Leon Gruskin
Larry Cohen Photo
Larry Cohen as Journalist
Eric Bogosian Photo
Eric Bogosian as Neville
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
749.96 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 2
1.58 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by walter m 6 / 10

Have you ever noticed that there is always

Have you ever noticed that there is always one guy who ruins the topless photo shoot for everyone else? In this case, it is Keefe(Brad Rijn) who tries dragging his wife Andrea(Zoe Tamerlis) back home to Oklahoma from New York. She will have none of it, escaping out the bathroom window before seeking out disgraced film director Chris Neville(Eric Bogosian). However, she realizes too late what he intends his next project to be... Wearing its low budget proudly on its sleeve(so much so, that some of the dialogue seemed to be fading out at times), "Special Effects" is a movie that wants to have its exploitation and complain about it, too. That it works as well as it does is down to Eric Bogosian's natural intensity. In this case, he puts it to good use playing a director who cannot tell reality from make-believe anymore. With a backdrop of a gloriously sleazy and tawdry 1980's New York City and a loft that is alternately tacky and awesome, this movie could also be seen as a warning against the glamour of filmmaking.
Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

Interesting, but sleazy picture. The lead actress is

Interesting, but sleazy picture. The lead actress is so horrible and almost completely torpedoes the whole movie, but listening to Cohen's ideas on the picture, gives me a different appreciation for the whole thing.
Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

For m this was an interesting look at

For m this was an interesting look at mid-'80s NYC, following around a director who kills a woman in his own apartment, then eventually contrives to get her husband (under suspicion for the murder!) to reenact the murder on camera for the film that he's working on. It's an interesting watch, with Eric Bogosian playing things pretty fast and loose just to see what he can get away with, and I absolutely loved his apartment. Worth a look if you have the chance.
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