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Blow Out
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terri stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. It's the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently Jack finds himself in danger.
7 October 1939, New York City, New York, USA
8 October 1956, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
30 December 1925, Larchmont, New York, USA
18 June 1961, Kankakee, Illinois, USA
17 January 1945, USA
5 December 1951, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 October 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 July 1920, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 20, 2009
In the amazingly hyperbolic finale, DePalma conflates patriotism, dirty tricks, violence against women, and slasher movies into a single sick joke.October 23, 2004
A movie which continues [De Palma] practice of making cross-references to other movies, other directors, and actual historical events, and which nevertheless is his best and most original work.May 28, 2008
It's a great movie.May 01, 2011
Blow Out integrates De Palma style with narrative urgency and thematic consistency better than any of his films.May 18, 2011
If cynicism were a superhero franchise, Blow Out would be its origin story.July 20, 2016
In a career fixated on the machinations of filmmaking presented through both a carnal and political eye, Brian De Palma's fascinations converged idyllically with Blow Out.March 27, 2009
This 1981 release is one of Brian De Palma's more interesting and better-made thrillers, though it's even more abjectly derivative than his Hitchcock imitations.May 02, 2011
The final moments of Blow Out are among the most shocking and powerful of De Palma's oeuvre, tacking a final note of irony onto a story that is in every other way a straightforward denunciation of power run amok.March 26, 2009
With attractive leads and a stylish flair for suspense, De Palma misses sustaining involvement by his distracting allusions to prior films.June 24, 2006
Where Antonioni's images made you think, De Palma's merely make you blink, and the baroque plot confuses as often as it frightens.April 30, 2011
Perfectly contrasts movies that reveal the truth against those which avoid it - a blood-drenched yet stake-free slasher vs. the far more insidious horrors of all-American living.May 04, 2017
... classic De Palma, with its sinister elegance, meticulous cinematic choreography, voyeuristic obsessions, and fascination with guilt, as well as his most human and mortally vulnerable film.