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Bookmark this pageDressed to Kill (1980)
Director: Brian De Palma
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From Time Out Film Guide
Beginning and ending with a pair of shower frissons, this brazen reworking of Psycho is most striking for its sheer audacity, and actually lifts that film's most shattering device. But having achieved this coup, the film degenerates into near-farce, punctuated by a number of hollow audience-grabbing moments which hang together not at all. Ultimately, the film amounts to little more than a consummate study of suspense technique, all dressed up with nowhere to go.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Brian De Palma
Producer: George Litto
Cast: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz, David Margulies full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 104 mins
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