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Dressed to Kill
Directed by Brian De Palma
After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness. From TMDB
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Dressed to Kill is a 1980 thriller mystery horror film, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Nancy Allen, Michael Caine and Angie Dickinson.
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60 of 196 · most liked firstDressed to Kill (1980) Directed by Brian De Palma
neutral · AI labelView post →I know this is entirely marketing but I’m dying to know what this means, how do you make the movie that already invented biphobia “anti-woke,” are they gonna make her trans because that’s just Dressed to Kill
neutral · AI labelView post →Three films made in the 80's which all have transgender connections! 1/ Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean - 1982 2/ For You Eyes Only - 1981 3/ Dressed to Kill - 1980 www.theduckwebcomics.com/Nikki____A_L... #british #comic #art #transgender #movies
neutral · AI labelView post →He did: Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, Blow Out, and The Untouchables, a movie that needed like 90 percent less soundtrack.
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay, so I will rewatch "Deadly Blessing" (1982) and then my "Transphobic Horror Movie Revue" should be ready, featuring: Psycho (1960) Dressed to Kill (1980) Deadly Blessing (1981) Sleepaway Camp (1983) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Longlegs (2024) let me know if I missed any obvious entries
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyone has their favourite Sherlock Holmes; I grew up with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. They feature in Dressed to Kill (1946), screening4pm (Wed) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Grab your hat and boots, there's not a moment to lose!!! #TalkingPicturesTV film-authority.com/2025/03/13/d...
neutral · AI labelView post →This and also the anime Stop! Hibari-kun having an actual trans woman being the deuteragonist in her anime. Japan was bold and way ahead of its time Meanwhile the west was making transphobic slop like the movie Dressed To Kill around the same time
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! #332 Granted this may not be Carrie, or even Dressed To Kill, but then again, it's hardly Raising Cain either. 💩🚽🤣 The Fury is De Palma in his prime & it's deserving of far greater praise. #BluRay #FilmSky #PhysicalMedia
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day (28th September) in 1985, the Scala Cinema was showing Obsession (1976), Carrie (1976), Sisters (1972), Blow Out (1981) and Dressed To Kill (1980) as a Brian De Palma All-dayer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #200 Into day 200 already for this thread?! Time fly's - for today selection is Brian De Palma's enormously controversial Dressed To Kill. Challenging then, and perhaps more so today. #4K #PhysicalMedia #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Fav film from each year of the 1980s: 80: Zigeunerweisen (and fuck you to anyone who chose Dressed to Kill) 81: Raiders of the Lost Ark 82: The Thing 83: Videodrome 84: Nausicaä (but The Killing Fields...) 85: Ran 86: Big Trouble in Little China 87: Evil Dead 2 88: Die Hard 89: Tetsuo: The Iron Man
neutral · AI labelView post →Both my regular readers know I've been working myself up to yet another career suicide move by attempting to re-habillitate Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill, that review drops this week. First, I'll attempt the same trick on his unloved 2012 thriller Passion. 4/5 film-authority.com/2025/09/23/p...
neutral · AI labelView post →What is your favorite Brian De Palma film? I have been on a De Palma kick this weekend watching Body Double, Blow Out and Dressed to Kill. I watched Mission Impossible and Snake Eyes endlessly when I was younger and become fascinated with his style. #film #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Italian film poster for DRESSED TO KILL (1980) Cast: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon
neutral · AI labelView post →If Sleepaway Camp gives somebody permission to remake Dressed to Kill next, I'm gonna scream and probably never stop screaming. Transphobic garage movie does not deserve praise, a Criterion spine number, modern reinterpretations, new fans, or any of that crap. Let it rot in the past. Just my take!!
negative · AI labelView post →Another Autrey take of Mary and Lowe for Dressed to Kill (1928). Mary was loaned out to Fox by Warner Brothers for the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dressed To Kill 1980 www.imdb.com/title/tt0080... 📽️ #NowWatching #filmsky #horror #horrormovies #slashers « a mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder » imdb
neutral · AI labelView post →@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social have vintage Sherlock Holmes mystery at 11.35am, with the classic Dressed to Kill. There's debates about the best Holmes, but I grew up watching these Basil Rathbone+Nigel Bruce movies, and they're fantastic stuff. #TalkingPicturesTV film-authority.com/2025/03/13/d...
neutral · AI labelView post →Brian De Palma (with scenes from his film "Dressed to Kill") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm starting my list of with Eleanor Parker. A big screen actress who found herself moving to TV in the later part of her career and OWNING every small screen frame. She's known in the TV horror movie world for Home for the Holidays (1972) and She's Dressed to Kill (1979). Nothing short of FABULOUS!
neutral · AI labelView post →Now playing in the Nickxcom horror theater: the Brian De Palma classic "Dressed to Kill". I haven't seen this movie in a VERY long time but I remember liking it a lot #filmsky #horrorsky
positive · AI labelView post →Reminded myself I know JK Rowling ripped off the plot of Dressed to Kill for her stupid mystery she wrote under a pseudonym. Rowling, I'm a Horror movie fan and I see slasher movies. You're not fooling me one bit.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie - Dressed to Kill I liked that the Philadelphia Museum of Art was featured even though the movie takes place in New York.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching #JanuaryGiallo Giallo Americano! Dressed to Kill 1980 | Brian De Palma Arguably THE only true American Giallo film (Tarantino, Roth & presenter @patrickbromley.bsky.social agree!) This film catches 🔥 in the first 10 seconds and doesn’t stop for 104 minutes! A+ @j60660.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →The fun part about having kids is that my #LastFourWatched sometimes has a Pixar movie between Seconds and Dressed to Kill.
neutral · AI labelView post →decided to put on DRESSED TO KILL, and Prime recommended BLAME IT ON RIO, a movie about Michael Caine having sex with a teenager, I think.
neutral · AI labelView post →Blow Out (1981): When you wait decades to watch a movie, sometimes you miss the whole reclamation period and skip straight to the canonization. Which is to say, I was kind of surprised at how wonderfully scummy Blow Out is — even though I knew it was his Dressed To Kill follow up. Good movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →On our new episode, we are talking about a movie Don Mancini has repeatedly cited as an influence: 1980's "Dressed to Kill," directed by Brian De Palma. It...doesn't hold up by today's standards, but the influence is there.
negative · AI labelView post →My year in drawings of objects from films I watched (4/7) June-Aug Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) Dressed to Kill (1980) Beverly Hills Cop (1984) Collateral (2004)
neutral · AI labelView post →How about the best Hitchcock film NOT by Hitchcock? 'Charade'? 'High Anxiety'?! 'Dressed To Kill'?
neutral · AI labelView post →I had a great convo with @pauletheredge.bsky.social about his film HELLBENT, early 2000s homophobia, Queer Horror, Dressed to Kill, and a potential Hellbent sequel! Coming next week! bsidesbadlands.com
neutral · AI labelView post →Many embarrassing nominations and wins in their history. They nominated Brian De Palma as Worst Director for Dressed to Kill, Scarface, Body Double, The Bonfire of the Vanities and Mission to Mars. I only count one bad movie out of those 5
neutral · AI labelView post →~ #dailyCelluloid 🎬🍿 7/8/25 ANSWER 😱✨ Dressed To Kill (1980) DIR - Brian De Palma #mutantfam 😈 #horrorsky 🎃 #filmsky 👻 youtu.be/AE37peg5fTU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →John Lithgow’s favourite horror movie is Dressed to Kill. John Lithgow can go walk into the sea for all I care
neutral · AI labelView post →Catching up on another classic slasher(?) film. #nowwatching Dressed to Kill (1980). So far we've had a lot of sexual frustration and a trip around an art gallery. #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Dressed To Kill (Another film I've never seen, even though I probably should have by now and I love DePalma) #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Never the best idea to show clips of, not just a better film, but also the exact type of film you’re attempting to make, in the background of your own feature. It’s just calls attention to how frustratingly subpar you’re pulpy erotic thriller is. Anyhow, feeling the need to rewatch DRESSED TO KILL.
negative · AI labelView post →A Hitchcock film? It’s reminiscent of a scene in Dressed To Kill and I know how much Brian DePalma liked to incorporate tributes to Hitchcock in his work.
neutral · AI labelView post →Brian de Palma’s Dressed to Kill. It’s a movie I love dearly, as it’s a very stylish film, but its portrayal of transgender people is pretty problematic and it’s best to be left in the past as de Palma has made other, better films.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s Film Selection🍿🎥🎬: In the mood for some Brian De Palma tonight. Had it narrowed down to this or “Dressed to Kill”. Went with “Body Double” because I feel it’s his closest work to The Master…Alfred Hitchcock. #TonightsFilmSelection
neutral · AI labelView post →RW: Dressed to Kill (1980, dir. Brian De Palma) #Filmsky 📽️ Not watched any De Palma recently, and haven't seen this one in a good while. Flawed and problematic? Absolutely. But he really knew how to make a film. Just a shame he forgot how to a long time ago now.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last Week's show, episode 264. The Movie: Dressed To Kill (1946) One of the public domain Sherlock Holmes flicks! with funny sound effects added! #vintagefilm #whodunnit #mysterymovie #basilrathbone www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgDS...
neutral · AI labelView post →Also arriving today - Tobe Hooper’s 1985 #scifi film ‘Lifeforce’ and Brian de Palma’s 1980 psychological thriller ‘Dressed to Kill’, both on wonderful 4K ultra HD, from @arrowvideo.bsky.social.
neutral · AI labelView post →There are just 14 of them (15 if you count "Dressed to Kill" under its other title, but it's the same movie). I'm particularly fond of "The Voice of Terror" and "Terror by Night". Renee Godfrey was a beauty.
neutral · AI labelView post →#AprilMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 4/13 Someone goes to an art museum in a movie Dressed To Kill (1980) Dir. Brian DePalma
neutral · AI labelView post →For #AprilMovieChallenge #Moviesky for @omacolt.bsky.social Day 13... Someone goes to an art museum in a movie Angie Dickinson does just that in Dressed to Kill... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/d...
neutral · AI labelView post →#filmsky Brian de Palma had hits with Carrie and Dressed To Kill, but Freeline Media critic @mikeymcfilms.bsky.social thinks there are a few other films in the director's oeuvre that you should be watching. Here are Mike's recommendations for de Palma mania! freelinemediaorlando.com/movie-talk-r...
neutral · AI labelView post →Sherlock Holmes Dressed To Kill 1946 is today's film on my Crime playlist. youtu.be/-zq0EWeWiRM A trio of music boxes contains the hidden secret to riches, and a group of criminals will kill for them. In Vibrant Color. Please subscribe to the Channel. New Films all the time.
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 24 of my Halloween 2025 'Horror Deep Dive Film Music Quiz'. Yesterday's answer was 'Dressed To Kill'. Can you guess today's? Correct Answers get a 'Scooby!'.
neutral · AI labelView post →just watched Dressed to Kill (1980), a classic killer tranny movie, and it is utter dogshit that of course has 83% on rotten tomatoes
negative · AI labelView post →🍿 Join us for our Back To Back movie night on Saturday, March 31st to see two #littlebigplanet film premieres! We're watching Dressed to Kill by Tile Denial and the first episode of the TIC Boxing Special right after that on our Discord server. See you then!
neutral · AI labelView post →A sampling of movies I watched before I turned 10: LAST TANGO IN PARIS CALIGULA THE TIN DRUM THE SHINING DRESSED TO KILL LIPSTICK Assorted Slasher Movies and Teen Sex Comedies Most of this, as I've written before, was made possible via the blessedly reckless programing of The Movie Channel.
neutral · AI labelView post →Undervalued DePalma riffing off both Coppola's The Conversation & Antonioni's Blow-Up. DePalma sure loved to riff! Travolta is solid, but real heart of movie is Nancy Allen. Great! Not every director used her well, but DePalma also gave her memorable roles in Carrie & Dressed To Kill. #filmsky 📽🎥🎞🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →Nancy Allen in “Dressed to Kill” #CultShelf #DressedToKill #NancyAllen #FilmNoir #80smovies
neutral · AI labelView post →Today’s foray was to Film Forum for a first time viewing of Brian De Palma’s pulpy, trashy Psycho knock-off Dressed to Kill (1980), a pure example of the genre I think of as the Very Well Made Bad Film.
negative · AI labelView post →Final film of De Palma-fest 2023. Recording tomorrow morning on everything up to 1980's DRESSED TO KILL, and then covering all of his OTHER films a few months from now.
neutral · AI labelView post →Bobbi from Dressed to Kill, my favorite transphobic horror movie
negative · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie was Dressed to Kill, since I'm on a speed run of the Erotic Thrillers collection on Criterion before a lot of them expire. It was good! DePalma has got such a dreamy aesthetic, especially in his earlier work. Fun fact - if you drank every time you saw a split diopter shot, you'd die
positive · AI labelView post →Hmmm, I love Dressed to Kill most, but Charade is definitely the closest anyone has ever come to making a Hitch like movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Honorable mentions: *Dressed To Kill *Triangle *Whistle and I’ll Come to You I forced myself to only pick films I hadn’t seen before, so it was cool to get out of my comfort zone and discover some new favorites 😎 Thanks, @horrorqueers.bsky.social, for facilitating a great movie-watching month!
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