Jake comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the arrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Frank shows him his 'favorite neighbor', a well built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police.


Books on Body Double

Susan Dworkin
Double De Palma, A film study with Brian De Palma
New York, 1984

Articles on Body Double

Kaelie Thompson, The Suspense-Thriller's Pygmalion Complex: Masculine Desire in Vertigo (1958), Les Biches (1968), and Body Double (1984), in: Monica S. Cyrino and Meredith E. Safran (eds.), Classical myth on screen, New York, 2015

Kai Mihm, Pornorama-Wunderland, in: epd Film, nr. 3, 2012 pp. 24

Articles with substantial mentioning of Body Double

Georg Tscholl, "Peep-Art": vom Beobachten im Quadrat, Das psychoanalythische Kino des Brian De Palma, in: Thomas Ballhausen/Günter Krenn/Lydia Marinelli (Hg.), Psyche im Kino, Wien, 2006