The slow-motion, ‘nekked’ schoolgirl shower-room fantasy in this movie is one of the distinctrive hallmarks of the cinema of Brian de Palma, director of Wotan’s Wake, Get to Know Your Rabbit, Phantom of the Paradise, Scarface and The Untouchables. De Palma is often described by film critics as the heir to Hitchcock, but though he may share certain misogynistic traits with the Master, the films that are mostly described as ‘Hitchcockian’ - Body Double, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out - seem to be ripped off not so much from Hitchcock as from Dario Argento.