Brian De Palma directed this stylish, controversial erotic thriller openly indebted to Hitchcock, in which the brutal murder of a housewife, played by Angie Dickinson, entangles a call girl, played by Nancy Allen, and a psychiatrist, played by Michael Caine. Lush split-screen craft and a wordless museum seduction sequence show De Palma's virtuosity. Criticized at the time for its treatment of women, it has since been reassessed as a bravura, self-aware exercise in suspense.