Brian De Palma (b. 1940) isn't your average Hollywood director.
For years he reigned as the "master of the macabre," the man who massacred the class of '76 in Carrie and stalked Angie Dickinson in Dressed to Kill. By the mid-1980s De Palma found himself assaulting his audience and critics, daring them to watch a chainsaw enter a man's skull in Scarface and a power drill disembowel a defenseless woman in Body Double.
What drove De Palma to such extremes? In the late 1960s, he wanted to be the next Jean-Luc Godard and revolutionize American cinema. Instead,...
Brian De Palma (b. 1940) isn't your average Hollywood director.
For years he reigned as the "master of the macabre," the man who massacred the cl...
