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Dressed to Kill - four Stars (Terrific)
"Dressed to Kill" is the most horrific psychological thriller I have noticed due to the fact "Wait Until Dark" with Audrey Hepburn as a recently blinded woman who is terrorized by a trio of thugs though they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they think is in her apartment.
Dressed to Kill is just as tense and scary and adds the taut elements of a steamy shower scene as the female lead Kate Miller (played by none other than Angie Dickinson) pleasures herself, a sex scene in a taxi cab that is so hot and so ahead of its time that it practically explodes the vehicle, and a razor-slitting murder scene in an elevator that is beyond graphic.
This is one disturbing film involving an unhappy, undersexed wife, an anonymous lover, a psychiatrist, a psychopath, a stalker and a serial killer, not to mention female nudity, erotica, vulgarity and transsexualism.
The DVD version that I rented had the traditional version and the uncut version I opted for the uncut version. In spite of all of its horrific elements, Dressed to Kill is an terrific production (as least the uncut version) as a psychological thriller mainly because all of the aforementioned horror scenes in fact add to the story line and as such are not sensational enough to grab attention away from the unfolding drama.
We can thank Brian De Palma for that. De Palma both wrote and directed this film with stunning results, his murder mystery is ideal up there with the very best of the most beneficial. So quite a few writer/director efforts result in terrible films. The film was released in 1980, 27 years ago.
In the movie, Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson), a middle-aged, sexually frustrated housewife, has a fantasy taking a shower and later that day complains to her psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott (Michael Caine) about her husband's pathetic performance in bed.
Kate goes to a museum and encounters a strange man (Ken Baker) who she ends up with in a taxicab on the way to his apartment for even more sex. While there she discovers the man has a sexually transmitted disease and she bolts, only to return when she realizes she has taken off and forgotten her wedding ring.
Soon after returning to the elevator she is brutally slashed to death by a tall blond woman wearing dark glasses. A high-priced call girl (Nancy Allen) is the only witness to the murder and becomes the slasher's next target. She is rescued by Kate's son Peter (Keith Gordon) who enlists her assist in the scary enterprise of solving his mother's murder.
Dressed to Kill is loaded with clever writing and clues that go appropriate by you on 1st viewing. I seldom watch dramas anymore since I have noticed enough in my lifetime and so several action adventure, natural disaster and drama films today are definitely ridiculous in premise and presentation.
Fans of Angie Dickinson will be heartened to know that a body double was applied in the shower scene in the film. It could just as simply have been Angie. Two years following producing Dressed to Kill, when she was 50 and but to undergo any surgery, a panel of Hollywood designers and make-up artists in 1982 ranked her initial in a list of Preferred Female Star Bodies.
Angie stated that the taxicab scene was filmed on location in New York, where a number of gawkers observed the scene and shouted, "Right on, Police Woman" (referring to her prior Tv role as Sgt. "Pepper" Anderson in the crime drama "Police Woman").
The sex and violence in this film make it a terrible selection for viewing by any individual except adults, and then only adults who can handle these topics without becoming terribly impacted. This limits the film's recognition and resulted in virtually no awards for the film-making effort.
As a murder mystery I would rate Dressed to Kill as terrific and a especially, extremely scary film.
Copyright © 2008 Ed Bagley
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