DRESSED TO KILL Review On "Violent Maniac's Cage"

DRESSED TO KILL

(1980, USA)

DIRECTED BY: Brian De Palma.

After hearing so much about this film I was anxious to see it but the outcome didn't far so well. It is widely known that De Palma was in his stage of borrowing heavily from Hitchcock and some scenes in this reveal it heavily.

In Dressed To Kill Angie Dickenson plays a sexually repressed housewife looking for some adventure in her sex life. She meets a man at a museum in what some call a classic wordless moment and they eventually sleep with each other in a hotel room. When Dickenson leaves she is killed in an elevator by what appears to be a woman in another famous scene.

Prostitute Nancy Allen witnesses the murder and along with Dickensons son investigates the matter. Other actors include Dennis Franz as a sleazy cop and Michael Caine as a passive psychiatrist. Not a bad film but nothing I would label as a classic or must see, only films like Tromeo And Juliet get that kind of status (hehe).

Rating: 3 Skulls

Review by: Richard J. Taylor

Email: rtaylor@roadrunner.nf.net

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