My review was written in December 1992 after watching the movie on AIP video cassette.
Ingenious scripting and clever casting lift "Double Threat" above the commonplace in the erotic thriller genre. Film opened on a regional basis in the South last month and heads soon for video.
Sally Kirkland is the tongue-in-cheek choice for film's central role: a Hollywood star making her comeback in a melodrama whose producer, her ex-husband (Tony Franciosa), demands that the film must be sexy. Kirkland amusingly takes a stand with her director (Chick Vennera): she's never had to do a nude scene and she's not starting now.
Solution is to hire a body double, lovely Sherrie Rose. Rub is that Kirkland's leading man and off-screen boyfriend, younger Andrew Stevens, falls in love with Rose after making love to her before the cameras.
Filmmaker David A. Prior plants knowing in-jokes into his script but has the cast play everything straight, making for an entertaining package. Following up on the similar "In the Heat of Passion", Kirkland is hot indeed, especially in an uninhibited masturbation sequence. Rose is well-matched as her double and subject of a final revelation that is a very satisfying plot twist.
Filmed on location in Mobile, Alabama, this low-budget entry adequately conveys the atmosphere of Tinseltwons and its behind-the-scenes antics.
Ingenious scripting and clever casting lift "Double Threat" above the commonplace in the erotic thriller genre. Film opened on a regional basis in the South last month and heads soon for video.
Sally Kirkland is the tongue-in-cheek choice for film's central role: a Hollywood star making her comeback in a melodrama whose producer, her ex-husband (Tony Franciosa), demands that the film must be sexy. Kirkland amusingly takes a stand with her director (Chick Vennera): she's never had to do a nude scene and she's not starting now.
Solution is to hire a body double, lovely Sherrie Rose. Rub is that Kirkland's leading man and off-screen boyfriend, younger Andrew Stevens, falls in love with Rose after making love to her before the cameras.
Filmmaker David A. Prior plants knowing in-jokes into his script but has the cast play everything straight, making for an entertaining package. Following up on the similar "In the Heat of Passion", Kirkland is hot indeed, especially in an uninhibited masturbation sequence. Rose is well-matched as her double and subject of a final revelation that is a very satisfying plot twist.
Filmed on location in Mobile, Alabama, this low-budget entry adequately conveys the atmosphere of Tinseltwons and its behind-the-scenes antics.