Body Double would be the fifth collaboration between writer/director Brian De Palma and composer Pino Donaggio. While the movie itself is something of a delirious and self-indulgent De Palma fever dream of silliness, sleaze, and suspense, Donaggio's score for the film contains two of my all-time favorite pieces by the composer. Emphasis on pieces.
The first, and most recognizable, would be Telescope, of course. "A lilting vocal siren song weaves through this cue," Jeff Bond writes in his liner notes. "De Palma evidently found this music so integral to the film that he tracked it into a number of later sequences that focus on Scully's obsession with Gloria."
Second is a low pulsating synthesizer suspense underlay that, in this release, shines brightest on the track Detective McClane, Please! My reason(s) for loving it are most likely do to it sounding, to me, like something John Carpenter and Alan Howarth might have done at that particular period in time.
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