
Cult 101: Blow Out (1981) 4K Restoration
Director: Brian De Palma Run Time: 108 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1981
Starring: Dennis Franz, John Lithgow, John Travolta, Nancy Allen, Peter Boyden
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead..

About the filmmaker:
Brian De Palma is an American film director and writer. Through his career spanning five decades, he became most well known for his suspense and crime thriller films, including such box office hits like Scarface (1983), The Untouchables (1987), and Mission: Impossible (1996). For his viscerally disturbing and stylistic work on genre films such as Carrie (1976), Dressed to Kill (1980), Raising Cain (1992), and Mission to Mars (2000), De Palma has been praised as the heir to Alfred Hitchcock’s legacy as the “Master of the Macabre.” Carrie (1976), the original adaptation of the Stephen King novel by the same name, has gone down in cinematic history for its iconic use of fake blood and the haunting performances of Sissy Spacek (as Carrie White) and Piper Laurie (as Margaret White).
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