Friday, February 24, 2006

Best movie of 1981: Looker

This movie haunts me. I love it. I used to watch it over and over again. Susan Dey's performance is wonderful, and I found the plot to be very intriguing for the time it was made. I doubt today's general movie-going audience would be wowed by it, but put your 80s shoes back on and give this movie a try (if you can find it!).

Plot summary via Moria/Richard Scheib:
Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr Larry Roberts becomes implicated in the murder of several models, all who have come to him requesting he make micro-surgical alterations to their features. Roberts realizes that model Cindy Fairmont is one of the next intended victims and tries to protect her. In so doing, he uncovers a scheme by an advertizing company to hypnotize TV viewers with pulses of light hidden in the on-screen images of models' eyes and to eliminate and replace the original models with computer-generated simulations.

Not that this is particularly exciting, but it's one of only two movies in which you can see The Partridge Family's Susan Dey nude.

1 comment:

don't call me MA'AM said...

Okay, except for seeing Lori Partridge naked (eww!)... this WAS a great movie.