Dressed to Kill (1980)
Handling
Writer/director Brian De Palma maintains a fever pitch from start to finish with his steamily libidinous and extremely bloody thriller! Starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen (in a Golden Globe-nominated performance*), this taut psycho-sexual chiller is razor-sharp tale of passion, madness and murder that's as scary as the devil with suspense to spare. Fashionalbe Manhattan therapist Dr. Robert Elliott (Caine) faces the most terrifying moment of his life, when a psychotic killer begins attacking the women in his life (Dickinson & Allen) - with a straight razor stolen from his office. Desperate to find the murderer before anyone else is hurt; Elliott is soon drawn into a dark and disturbing world of chilling desires. And as the doctor edges closer to the terrible truth, he finds himself lose in the provocative and deadly maze of obsession, deviance, and deceit - where the most harmless erotic fantasies... can become the most deadly sexual nightmares! * 1980, New Star of the Year
