BODY PARTS was adapted from the novel
Choice Cuts, by French writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, the respected team who wrote
Diabolique, filmed in 1955 by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and
The Living and the Dead, on which Alfred Hitchcock based VERTIGO. The screenplay was co-written by
director Eric Red, whose screenplays for THE HITCHER and NEAR DARK evinced a knack for invigorating genre conventions. Despite this prestigious pedigree, BODY PARTS is somewhat less than the sum of its parts.
Dr. Bill Crushank (Jeff Fahey), a respected psychiatrist, is in all respects a normal, happy guy. He has a lovely home, a beautiful wife, Karen (Kim ...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
89 mins