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PLOT


The film begins and ends with the protagonist Jake playing the character of a vampire on the set of a Spoof Horror Film . He is unable to rise from a coffin due to Claustrophobia , so attends an acting workshop to improve his skills. He has recently found himself without a home, after witnessing his girlfriend having an affair in her home, where he had been living. At the workshop class, he gets a house-sitting offer he cannot refuse. Later in the film, we see the "movie within a movie" in the Frankie Goes To Hollywood video for the song "Relax". The Octagonal Chemosphere house in the San Fernando Valley was used in the film.


TRIVIA

Body Double is heavily referenced in Bret Easton Ellis' novel, American Psycho.


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