ken russell direct this weird ( not very ) erotic thriller and if i hadn not know that i would have stake my life that the director be brian depalma . absolutely everything about crime of passion scream depalma and from the gaudy cinematography that be lit a little too brightly and to the domestic storyline that turn into a stalk and slash plot and to even the title this scream depalma and depalma and depalma unfortunately since brian depalma be increasingly see a a poor man hitchcock over the year russell should have try emulate a style of his own . sure an erotic thriller in the style of tommy or billion dollar brain would have be bizarre with a capital b but at least it would have be a unique cinematic experience . story about prostitute live a dangerous double life and be stalk by a religious maniac be an all too common sight in the 1980s video market . oh and anthony perkins play the same role he play in almost every movie he make in the 1980s . yawn the only thing of any real note to crime of passion be the controversy it cause . i guess the studio be the happy people to hear this since no publicity be bad publicity and but a for the controversial sex scene . what controversial sex scene . there aren not any and the only controversy i can think of be of china blue dominate an on duty policeman with a truncheon . needless to say he do not come quietly ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha .