Double Exposure (1983)

In Los Angeles, a serial killer is randomly killing women, usually hookers and models. A commercial photographer (Michael Callan, CAT BALLOU) has recurring nightmares about murdering his models. Could there be a connection? Duh! This 80s slasher flick is a cut above the standard slasher film. Oh, it's still a low budget exploitation movie aimed at the horror market but its ambitions are a bit higher. From the stylish opening credits which take the film's title literally to the first rate underscore, you can see that there trying to be more creative in the genre. Unfortunately, their aspirations exceed their abilities. Though it's quite obvious who the killer is early on, the movie cheats when showing the killings in order to keep us from identifying the killer. Some of Callan's "mad" scenes are a bit over the top as if he's trying for an Oscar nomination. With one exception, the murders themselves are rather restrained in comparison to other splatter movies. The one exception involves death by rattlesnake and the camera lingers on the poor girl's death much too long. Directed by William Byron Hillman. With Joanna Pettet (THE GROUP), Terry Moore, Seymour Cassel, Sally Kirkland, Ken Scott, Cleavon Little (BLAZING SADDLES), Pamela Hensley, Joey Forman, Misty Rowe and James Stacy in the first film he made following the accident that cost him an arm and leg.