Many unintended annoyances make this a lesser De Palma thriller.

A bit trashy & a lot of early de Palma craziness. I like.

In Carrie, there's a clear Hitchcock influence worn on Brian De Palma's sleeve, but he makes the material his own and turned the film into a campy horror masterpiece. Here, it just feels like a straight ripoff - a lame-duck bastard child of Rear Window and Psycho with visual references to other Hitch films throughout, but without any fright to be had, it just ends up being silly and stupid. It's not boring, but it's pretty trashy.

It devolved into a flavorless lynchian clusterfuck toward the end. The first murder scene made me jump/laugh. Not sure if that was its intended effect. This wasn't that good.

Amateur material, but strange enough to make it worth one watch. It's a little odd that De Palma exploits an unfortunate birth defect, though.

A fine piece of paranoia. De Palma sure loves Psycho. Weird ending...

Low-budget early De Palma effort is bloody, bizarre, absorbing, and includes some interesting use of the split-screen. I loved it when I saw it with my girl at the drive-in in 1974.

Mesmerizing!

Pulpy, graphic and uproariously entertaining!

Bizarre and creepy. Good early De Palma.

De Palma sure loves to play his audience like a fiddle. It gets a little annoying at times when he does it so blatantly with music cues and visual tells, but otherwise it's a very fun and well crafted thriller. Some nice performances by the ladies too.

all the depalma trappings (voyeurism, split screen, references to hitchcock) are on display in this early 70's effort. a bit of a mixed bag for me but i would recommend it especially for fans of his work.....

You know, I think I really hate Brian De Palma

Top rank DePalma and an amazing score too.

De Palma with his teeth dug in deep into raw genre filmmaking, crafting a horror film fraught with sexuality and psychodrama. The lurid love of fully apparent technique that would often be De Palma's undoing in ensuing years in fully evident here and artfully in control. The split screen that would be cool enough but gimmicky in Carrie three years later is used to truly heighten the tension as the terrible twists of the plot unfold.

It's quite trippy and I like how the narrative manages to twist into something far more intricate and compelling than one would at first believe. It's well executed, but the conclusion though bizarre and intriguing is ultimately underwhelming.

A bizarre murder-mystery slowly turning into something almost surreal. The film seem to start off as a (less intruding) Lynch-nightmare and slowly turn into some outlandish Polanski-bestiality with quite a heavy dose of paranoia.

Simply terrific horror film. Wonderfully nightmarish, yet there's a strong sense of humor

It didn't get to me and it was predictable right from the beginning. The nightmarish finale had an interesting ambiguity to it but still didn't get me. Interesting scenes, including split-screen ones and the mentioned psychedelic finale, which may be of historical interest. Bernard Herrmann score. I watched this for scholarly reasons. As such it hasn't been a waste of time and won't be for anyone who watches it for the same reason.

Decidedly delirious. In the very, very good way. A solid first half gives way to a final 30 min rivalling "Eraserhead", (the best bits of) "El Topo" and the like for the greatest trip i've had with just a healthy dose of movie strip (and some coffee). Also: How awesome was that final shot? Ridiculously random. Pure cinematic cool.

greatly impressive camerawork and editing, but some of the acting is sub-par and the movie doesn't really have too much interesting by way of a story.

Lead actor was pretty creepy, but otherwise it's not scary.