Blow Out (1981)
All of Brian De Palma’s movies are ridiculous Alfred Hitchcock-inspired thrillers. His 1981 movie Blow Out makes almost no sense but still succeeds in being mightily entertaining: John Travolta stars as Jack Terry, a sound technician for a Hollywood slasher movie who accidentally records the sounds of a “Chappaquiddick”-type incident involving the Pennsylvannia governor and a prostitute. The story then devolves into a paranoid series of events, including a bizarre subplot in which a hired goon for a political candidate becomes a serial killer. Again, this movie is totally bonkers. But’s it’s also great!
