Blow Out
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terri stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. It's the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently Jack finds himself in danger.
31 December 1963, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
25 December 1959, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
15 September 1921, Houston, Texas, USA
22 November 1958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
13 June 1911, Rector, Arkansas, USA
11 October 1954, Dallas, Texas, USA
8 October 1956, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
21 August 1929, Warsaw, Indiana, USA
23 June 1936, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
18 June 1961, Kankakee, Illinois, USA
14 February 1936, Buffalo, New York, USA
7 October 1939, New York City, New York, USA
23 February 1933, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1962
28 October 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 April 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
19 July 1945, Leominster, Massachusetts, USA
May 02, 2011
The final moments of Blow Out are among the most shocking and powerful of De Palma's oeuvre, tacking a final note of irony onto a story that is in every other way a straightforward denunciation of power run amok.
May 01, 2011
Blow Out integrates De Palma style with narrative urgency and thematic consistency better than any of his films.
August 20, 2009
In the amazingly hyperbolic finale, DePalma conflates patriotism, dirty tricks, violence against women, and slasher movies into a single sick joke.
July 20, 2016
In a career fixated on the machinations of filmmaking presented through both a carnal and political eye, Brian De Palma's fascinations converged idyllically with Blow Out.
May 28, 2008
It's a great movie.
May 04, 2017
... classic De Palma, with its sinister elegance, meticulous cinematic choreography, voyeuristic obsessions, and fascination with guilt, as well as his most human and mortally vulnerable film.
June 24, 2006
Where Antonioni's images made you think, De Palma's merely make you blink, and the baroque plot confuses as often as it frightens.
March 27, 2009
This 1981 release is one of Brian De Palma's more interesting and better-made thrillers, though it's even more abjectly derivative than his Hitchcock imitations.
May 18, 2011
If cynicism were a superhero franchise, Blow Out would be its origin story.
March 26, 2009
With attractive leads and a stylish flair for suspense, De Palma misses sustaining involvement by his distracting allusions to prior films.
October 23, 2004
A movie which continues [De Palma] practice of making cross-references to other movies, other directors, and actual historical events, and which nevertheless is his best and most original work.
April 30, 2011
Perfectly contrasts movies that reveal the truth against those which avoid it - a blood-drenched yet stake-free slasher vs. the far more insidious horrors of all-American living.
