Zoë Lund leaves such a strong impression with so little screen time in 'Bad Lieutenant', then in Ms. 45 she plays a mute, so I wanted to see more of her acting. In 'Special Effects', a very Hitchcock infused thriller, Zoë's character gets killed off in the first 22 minutes of the movie, but she's back in a different form for the last 40ish percent of the film.
Brad Rijn manages to track his run away wife to NYC after years of searching, he goes there with the intent of bringing her back to her son and home in Texas. She runs away from him, and goes to the home of a director acquaintance played by Eric Bogosian, who then kills her and dumps the body. Brad is the prime suspect, Bogosian bails him out on condition that he participate in a documentary movie he plans to make about the man's late wife. By chance Brad meets a woman who looks just like his late wife and is also played by Lund. Brad convinces Bogosian to hire her for the film, and boundaries of identity proceed to increasingly break down.
Pretty trippy film when you get down to it. Lund does a number of accents in this film and none of them are great. Intentional? Rijn is pretty unmemorable but Bogosian enjoys chewing the scenery. It's Hitchcock meets De Palma meets Blow-Up***
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