The movie keeps you guessing the relationship between Adrian Wilde's (Michael Callan) nightmares and the murders occurring on the streets of Los Angeles, and it doesn't clear up all that quickly as the corpses pile up. All the clues point to him being the killer but a quick reversal at the end of the story reveals the twist, and not a very satisfying one to my mind; it seemed like a cheap way out. I was astonished to see that gruesome 'snake in the bag, over the head trick', not so much as a murder tactic, but because I'd seen it once before in a low budget 1970 Western, "Cry Blood, Apache". Can't believe it's been used more than once, which suggests that there might be at least one more flick out there using the same idea. Astonished also that this film had a run time of only a little over an hour and a half, as it seemed to drag on twice as long, especially with all the filler scenes with the various supporting actors. My favorite in a very limited role was Robert Tessier as the bald headed bartender, looking mean as hell but never getting a chance to unload. His best moment in a picture had to be when he banged his head into a locker room wall in the 1974 version of "The Longest Yard". I think I'll go and watch that one again.
Review of Double Exposure
