This film should be celebrated as one of those purely cinematic experiences, which these days are all too few and far between.
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09/26/07
Dressed to Kill (1980)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:32
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: In this film that combines Hitchcock's slick premises with modern-day gore, a lonely wife follows her shrink's advice and seeks comfort in a stranger. After a seductive, dangerous encounter, the... [More]
Starring: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon
Director: Brian De Palma
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Reviews for Dressed to Kill
All dressed up with no script to go, but a feverish nerve jangler nonetheless.
09/26/07
No review available.
10/04/02
No review available.
05/14/04
It will keep your interest, at least -- if nothing else, it'll remind you that 1980 was really an extension of the overblown 1970s.
12/16/02
No review available.
10/11/02
Brian De Palma is at his Hitchcock-imitating best in this lurid psycho thriller that's an absolute treat from start to finish.
09/28/05
De Palma at his best.
07/17/08
...DePalma's inventive style and the quality of acting...makes the movie more than just a forgettable horror flick.
10/10/02
Never gets past looking dressed up like an expensive hooker.
08/30/05
Eerily transcendent, Dressed to Kill is a layered machine of on-target character work and the sort of tension that only the best of the best filmmakers can ratchet.
10/17/08
No review available.
06/17/05
Inflates paperback pulp psychology into something like a plot, all the better to demonstrate that filmmaking is an inherently visual storytelling.
09/02/06
Overrated De Palma, one of the best posters in the history of movies, though
12/21/04
No review available.
02/15/05
a brilliant send-up of suspense and horror conventions that is, at the same time, extremely suspenseful and often vary scary
08/28/01
Imperfect but interesting, with a few superb sequences
07/10/03
Dressed to Kill (1980) is a flat-out masterpiece.
03/04/06
No review available.
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