Obsession: Soundtrack

Obsession: Soundtrack

In a career often spent paying tribute to Alfred Hitchcock with the likes of Dressed to Kill, Blow Out and Body Double, Obsession even today stands as de Palma's ultimate fever dream homage to the director who'd made Bernard Herrmann a household name as the romantic master of musical suspense during an eight film collaboration, no more so than with 1958s Vertigo. Yet Obsession's reincarnation of that masterpiece showed just how devious de Palma always was in his admiration, cloaking a truly seditious plot twist that would've given even Hitchcock pause within sleek, star-filtered visuals.