Brian De Palma Archives

Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 29, 2002Absurdist Comedy

An early Brian De Palma film, a wonderfully nonsensical work in an absurdist vein where Tom Smothers drops out of the corporate world to become a tap dancing magician under the tutelage of Orson Welles

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: Tom Smothers, Orson Welles, Katharine Ross, John Astin

Category: Fantasy

29 July 200222 February 2026 by Roog

The Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Rating: ★★★★

Mar 9, 2001Phantom of the Opera Rock Musical Parody

Predating The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Brian De Palma conducts a very funny parody of The Phantom of the Opera (and several other horror films) as a glitter rock musical

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: William Finley, Paul Williams, Jessica Harper, Gerrit Graham, …

Category: Horror

9 March 200120 August 2020 by Roog

Obsession (1976)

Rating: ★★

Feb 6, 2002Reincarnation Thriller

Brian De Palma with Paul Schrader on script make a homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo with Cliff Robertson wandering Venice believing he has found the reincarnation of his late wife

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, John Lithgow

Category: Fantasy

6 February 200223 January 2025 by Roog

Carrie (1976)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 6, 2000Telekinetic Teen's Revenge/Stephen King Adaptation

The very first Stephen King adaptation, a hit that made King's name. Brian De Palma directs with flamboyant visuals that make you gasp but the film would be nothing without its amazing central performances from Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta, Nancy Allen, …

Category: Horror

6 June 20007 November 2025 by Roog

The Fury (1978)

Rating: ★★

Jun 10, 2002Psychic Powers

Brian De Palma returns to psychic powers themes in this successor to Carrie, but this is a much more sprawling and often incoherent narrative with only occasional moments of De Palma’s directorial flourish

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Amy Irving, John Cassavetes, Andrew Stevens, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

10 June 200215 February 2026 by Roog

Dressed to Kill (1980)

Rating: ★★★★

May 28, 2003Psycho-Sexual Thriller

Brian De Palma's homage to Psycho. With De Palma at absolute peak form, this is dazzlingly stylish in its directorial set-pieces and comes with an often outrageous sexual pathology

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Michael Caine, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, …

Category: Horror

28 May 200323 February 2026 by Roog

Blow Out (1981)

Rating: ★★★½

May 27, 2010Psycho-Thriller

One of Brian De Palma's most stylish psycho-thrillers, featuring John Travolta as a sound engineer who becomes targeted after he accidentally records evidence of a political assassination

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz

Category: Horror

27 May 20105 December 2025 by Roog

Body Double (1984)

Rating: ★★

Jan 16, 2000Psycho-Sexual Thriller

Brian De Palma psycho-thriller that blatantly copies Hitchcock's Vertigo with more than a few dashes of Rear Window. De Palma's stylish moves collapse under the weight of an absurdly contrived plot

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Deborah Shelton, Gregg Henry, …

Category: Horror

16 January 20007 December 2025 by Roog

Raising Cain (1992)

Rating: ★★

Jul 6, 1999Split Personality Psycho-Thriller

Brian De Palma made a return to his trademark psycho-thriller for the first time in several years but the benchmarks of the genre were now The Silence of the Lambs and Basic Instinct and De Palma’s wildly contorted plot and flourishes of style for their own sake seem dated

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer, Frances Sternhagen, …

Category: Horror

6 July 199913 January 2023 by Roog

Mission to Mars (2000)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 10, 2000Mars Landing/Alien Artefact

Brian De Palma makes a surprisingly good hard science film about a rescue mission send to save the first manned Mars expedition and their encountering alien artifacts on the planet

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 March 20003 February 2026 by Roog

Femme Fatale (2002)

Rating: ★★★

May 26, 2010Psycho-Thriller

Brian De Palma makes a return to the classic psycho-thrillers where he made his name, shouting virtuoso directorial flourish from the rafters and pulling off an amazingly contrived plot

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Eriq Ebouaney, …

Category: Fantasy

26 May 201016 January 2023 by Roog