Special Effects is a very interesting film in which a megalomaniac director kills a young aspiring actress and then begins making a film about the murder. The director uses the husband of the deceased as a scapegoat and a double to play the part of the unfortunate woman. Playing the actress with the sad fate is Zoë Lund, an actress with an even worse fate who died very young at age 37.
At the beginning of the film, Zoë Lund (credited as Zoë Tamerlis) poses nude in the center of a circular room, her nipples painted red and her panties in stars and stripes. A group of photographers is taking pictures around her. Fourteen minutes later the actress is sitting totally naked by the pool and drinking white wine with a guy. He gets up and goes to lie down in a bed in the next room. She follows him and gets into bed with him, naked. When the girl notices that he’s recording everything she gets angry and the two argue, then he chokes her. In the next scene the man is washing Zoë Lund‘s naked body in a bathtub. We don’t see the actress again for about half an hour, then she reappears as another character. Seventeen minutes after her second appearance, Zoë has sex with the main character. Four minutes later the choking scene is filmed. Zoë Lund, naked and lying in bed, is strangled for the second time in the film. Fourteen minutes later we see Zoë Lund naked for the last time. The girl is with the director; he undresses her and leads her to bed, where they have sex.
