Looker (1981)

Directed by

Michael Crichton

Genre

science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 133 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A plastic surgeon notices that several of his model patients are dying under strange circumstances. He investigates to uncover a plot involving a media company that uses advanced technology to manipulate public perception of beauty.

suspensefulclinicalparanoidcool-tonedcerebralsatiricalmysteriousdated

What happens

Looker is a 1981 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Michael Crichton, starring Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey, and Leigh Taylor-Young. It follows a series of mysterious deaths plaguing female models who have had cosmetic surgery done by a renowned Los Angeles physician. The film explores media, advertising and television's impact on the public in creating a ridiculous standard of beauty. Though sparse in visual effects, it is the first commercial film to attempt to use a computer-generated, three-dimensional, solid-looking model of a whole human body. However, as with its predecessors Futureworld, Star Wars, and Alien, this was an example of "CGI representing CGI", and only depicted on CRT screens in the film, rather than being used as a special effect. The model had no skeletal or facial movements and was not a character. Looker was also the first film to create three-dimensional (3D) shading with a computer, months before the release of the better-known Tron. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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