Movie Review for Dressed to Kill

Summary: In this film that combines lute slick premises with lute gore, a lonely wife follows her shrink's advice and seeks comfort in a stranger. After a seductive, dangerous encounter, the wife meets a homicidal maniac. The victim's son and the prostitute who discovers the body team up to track down the killer, a tall blonde woman with a trenchcoat and a razorblade.

                         Reviews of Dressed to Kill
By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            Dressed to Kill (1980) is a flat-out masterpiece.

By John J. Puccio of DVDTown.com (7/0)
            ...a thriller that may have you turning your head on a couple of occasions and maybe scratching i...

By Michael W. Phillips, Jr. of Goatdog's Movies (7/0)
            It has some genuinely creepy sequences and some really well-shot scenes, but De Palma strays too ...

By Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Never gets past looking dressed up like an expensive hooker.

By David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews (7/0)
            ...DePalma's inventive style and the quality of acting...makes the movie more than just a forgett...

By Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine (7/0)
            Inflates paperback pulp psychology into something like a plot, all the better to demonstrate that...

                         Reviews of Dressed to Kill
By James Kendrick of Q Network Film Desk (3/4) No reference
            a brilliant send-up of suspense and horror conventions that is, at the same time, extremely suspe...

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