Commonly labeled, sometimes dinged for it, as the heir apparent to Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma was New Hollywood’s master of sexually perverse, voyeuristic thrillers.
Commonly labeled, sometimes dinged for it, as the heir apparent to Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma was New Hollywood’s master of sexually perverse, voyeuristic thrillers. His mechanical efficiency made his cinematic style feel lively and original even when his stories appeared to be redundant. After a decade of dabbling in new genres, De Palma returned to his roots in 1998 with Snake Eyes, a voyeuristic Hitchcock homage that is De Palma at his most maximalist.