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Are you a De Palma fan? If not, you may not be able to appreciate this movie. See, "Body Double", to everyone else, flopped, while true De Palma fans praise it because of its stylized camera work and impeccable editing or "Sisters", which was appreciated for it's use of gore at a time when it was still tabooed and bally-hooed, or "Carrie", because it's the only King book that has made a successful, faithful transition to the big screen, to this day (I'm not counting "The Shining", because it wasn't faithful).
You have to know the stories behind each of De Palma's films. This one is enjoyed purely for the extravagant camera work and the exact replication of four different viewpoints during one place in time, which, put in the hands of any director, would have been loaded with goofs, errors, and mistakes. No other director would've attempted to have eighteen cameras in the same hallway or annex and no other director could've filmed that without catching one of the other several cameras in the frame. Amazingly, he did.
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