Modern audiences won't be surprised by the twist in this 1980 Brian De Palma thriller about a high-class prostitute on the trail of a killer, but it is interesting to watch for the director's nods to Hitchcock, specifically Psycho, including an extended sequence in which poor short-term lead actress, Angie Dickinson, meets a kind of Psycho shower scene demise, her death being the last of a long string of insults to befall her including her repeatedly losing her gloves, misplacing her diamond ring, falling into a sexual liaison in the back of a taxi, becoming exposed to venereal disease, and being stuck in an elevator going down, not up, with a starey, obnoxious girl - you can imagine Dickinson thinking, "Just kill me already."
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