DISTORTIONS
What a difference 24 inches of hair makes
When she's got long hair, Olivia Hussey walks that fine, foxy line between adorable and gorgeous. In this movie, she got it cut Janine Turner-style, and she looks like a ten-year-old boy. I swear, I exaggerate not. Go see for yourself.
Distortions has Hitchcockian aspirations, and all things considered, it's not half bad. There's a reasonable amount of suspense, the plot keeps twisting and turning (especially at the end, where it keeps bouncing all over the place with new, unlikely revelations) and everybody believes enough in their characters to pull it off.
A man goes to speak with a gay gigolo (I mention that he's gay as if there were another kind) and promptly has the crap beaten out of him for his trouble. Soon afterward, his widow is shown his burnt-to-a-crisp body - car accident, the police say. And then she starts seeing strange men at the corner of her vision while her friend, played by Piper Laurie, does her damnedest to convince the poor lass she's insane.
I probably would have liked this one a shade more if I'd watched it in one sitting, but I kept getting interrupted - I don't think it's ever taken me FIVE sittings to watch a movie before.
Still, it's certainly not a bad job overall. But Olivia,Olivia, your hair...(sniff)...