Film within a film has struggling Director resorting to a snuff film by secretly filming a murder and building a film around it. I've always enjoyed Larry Cohen's sly wit, which is especially present in the script-writing homicide investigator here.
This review of Special Effects (1984) was written by Al M on 04 Oct 2010.
Special Effects has generally received mixed reviews.
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