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neocowboy

For anyone who thought Hitchcock's Psycho wasn't 'sexy' enough.

11 years 6 months ago

Alfredo Garcia

Nancy Allen was married with Brian the Palma for several years. I find quite interesting that in two of the films they did together spoiler

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10 years 8 months ago

An unusual take on the slasher genre. More suspensful and tense, with some artistic touches worthy of Brian de Palma (of Scarface fame). Michael Caine is wonderful as always. Angie Dickinson delivers a good (and difficult) performance, mostly through body language as a large part of the movie is played out without dialogue. It actually borrows some film making techniques from the era of silent movies. See this one if you want a suspensful and original variation on the ever popular slasher horror genre, though be warned that the movie will probably appeal more to lovers of art movies than the average horror buff.

11 years 11 months ago

Zeltaebar

My admiration for this artistic slasher grew on my second viewing of it despite my knowledge of any surprises along the way. This is a psycologial slasher with good actors and a maestro director who goes for visual flair over chunky dialogue.

10 years 8 months ago

Earring72

Terrific thriller. Scared the crap out of me when I was a teenager and still holds up. De Palma is a master of suspense with this ode to the REAL master, Hitchcock.

Great fun, sleasy, sexy and very scary!!!!

7 years 5 months ago

Siskoid

An erotic thriller signed Brian De Palma, Dressed to Kill undoubtedly pays homage to Hitchcock's Psycho (a shower scene - a De Palma trademark - the killer's identity, drastic act turns), and it might be true to say, that in terms of his thriller work, De Palma generally picks up where Hitchcock left off. This is a stylish film that uses camera tricks to create suspense and memorable sequences (among them an extended museum "chase"), with a strong cast that includes Angie Dickinson, Michael Caine, Dennis Franz (as a really terrible cop) and Nancy Allen as a murder witness who's next on the killer's list. Though its LGBTQ+ content is unfashionable today, Dressed to Kill is nevertheless rather open-minded about such things, but it was still made in 1980, you know? If there's a weakness here, it's the ending, which suffers from epilogue-itis. One unnecessary infodump seems to have been shot later (note the hairstyles), and the final note is rather elliptical. Perhaps not De Palma top tier, but certainly a very entertaining entry in the second.

1 year 3 months ago