The third and final erotic thriller to make this list courtesy of Brian DePalma is his best of the bunch: Body Double is another strange, Hitchockian-inspired film that also works as an erotic thriller, as leading man Craig Wasson - a voyeur - becomes convinced that his neighbour has committed murder. Essentially the movie is a neat combination of aspects from both Rear Window and Vertigo (the protagonist suffers from claustrophobia here instead of vertigo), with a whole bunch of sexy scenes featuring barely-clad females thrown in for good measure. If it's another De Palma exercise in trying to make a modern Hitchcock film, it's a hell of a lot of fun - and the twists and turns throughout... well, you never see them coming. And just to cement the fact that it's a mock Hitchcock film, the movie stars Melanie Griffith (daughter of Tippi Hedren, who was one of the director's frequent collaborators).
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.