Dressed To Kill 4K coming from Kino

[Monterey Jack]

Coming October 25th on 4KUHD!
https://www.kinolorber.com/product/dres ... kill-4kuhd

DRESSED TO KILL (1980)



DISC 1 (4KUHD):
• Brand NEW HDR/Dolby Vision Master From a 16bit 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critic and Author Maitland McDonagh
• 5.1 Surround and Original Lossless 2.0 Mono
• Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

SPECIAL FEATURES DISC 2 (Blu-ray):
• STRICTLY BUSINESS: NEW Interview with Actress Nancy Allen
• KILLER FRAMES: NEW Interview with Associate Producer and Production Manager Fred C. Caruso
• AN IMITATION OF LIFE: NEW Interview with Actor Keith Gordon
• SYMPHONY OF FEAR: 2012 Interview with Producer George Litto (17:36)
• DRESSED IN WHITE: 2012 Interview with Actress Angie Dickinson (29:53)
• DRESSED IN PURPLE: 2012 Interview with Actress Nancy Allen (23:04)
• LESSONS IN FILMMAKING: 2012 Interview with Actor Keith Gordon (30:45)
• The Making of DRESSED TO KILL: 2001 Documentary (43:51)
• Slashing DRESSED TO KILL: 2001 Featurette (9:49)
• Unrated/R-Rated/TV Rated Comparison: 2001 Featurette (5:14)
• An Appreciation by Keith Gordon: 2001 Featurette (6:04)
• 1980 Archival Audio Interview with Actor Michael Caine (4:54)
• 1980 Archival Audio Interview with Actress Angie Dickinson (3:30)
• 1980 Archival Audio Interview with Actress Nancy Allen (14:30)
• Theatrical Trailer (2:10)
• 7 Radio Spots

Color 105 Minutes 2.35:1 Unrated
A disturbed woman, adrift in steamy sexual fantasies. A New York psychiatrist who seems to have taken on one patient too many. A beautiful call girl caught between the cops and a vicious razor-wielding killer…and the killer herself: a tall, blonde, elusive psycho named Bobbi. Dressed to Kill contains all the heart-stopping elements of a classic suspense thriller. But legendary writer-director Brian De Palma (Carrie, The Fury, Blow Out, Scarface, The Untouchables) turns up the heat and takes them one step further to create a masterpiece. Screen legend Michael Caine (The Ipcress File, The Italian Job) stars as a fashionable Manhattan therapist faced with a murderous puzzle: the sudden, hideous slaying of one of his patients—with a straight razor stolen from his office. Desperate to find the slasher before anyone else is hurt, the doctor soon finds himself lost in a provocative and deadly maze of obsession, deviance and deceit. Stunningly scored by Pino Donaggio (Body Double) with terrific turns by Angie Dickinson (Pretty Maids All in a Row), Nancy Allen (RoboCop), Dennis Franz (American Buffalo) and Keith Gordon (Christine), Dressed to Kill is a psychosexual tour de force from the modern master of the macabre.

[Eric Paddon]

They can put all kinds of bells and whistles on this title and it will still never get me to see it. It's not so much the subject matter as the fact that I simply can not handle that kind of on-screen violence and graphicness that I know exists in the film. I freely admit had "Psycho" not been made in the pre-68 era I never would have given that the time of day either.

[Monterey Jack]

Dressed To Kill is certainly graphic in terms of its violence, nudity and language, but it's also a gorgeous, spellbinding piece of pure filmmaking, one of De Palma's best movies. Granted, I'm a BDP fanboy, but even casual De Palma users give this film high marks. And it ought to look amazing with those saturated HDR colors.

Plus there are...other reasons to enjoy...

[AndyDursin]

I was never crazy about this one either but I'm glad for MJ and other fans there is a 4K of this one coming. DePalma is REAL hit or miss for me, most of the films I like of his I can count on one hand. Parts of this one I find seedy.

[Monterey Jack]

Parts of this one I find seedy.

It was New York circa 1980. EVERYTHING was seedy.

[Eric Paddon]

Yeah, but if I want to see the seedy New York of the 70s that I remember well, I can get that just from watching "The Taking Of Pelham One, Two Three" which language aside, is very restrained in the violence department compared to what came later on.

As for Nancy Allen in her lingerie, the screencap means I don't have to actually see the film itself.

[Eric Paddon]

I was never crazy about this one either but I'm glad for MJ and other fans there is a 4K of this one coming. DePalma is REAL hit or miss for me, most of the films I like of his I can count on one hand. Parts of this one I find seedy.

"Obsession" and "Bonfire Of The Vanities" are the only two films of his I've ever seen. The former fell apart for me as a mystery in its final fifteen minutes and he should have told Cliff Robertson to get a haircut for the opening scene set in the late 50s!

[AndyDursin]

You didn't see THE UNTOUCHABLES? That's probably his best "mass entertainment" effort and has a lot of great things in it, including Sean Connery's Oscar winning performance.

I found many of his movies to be kind of self-indulgent and gimmicky, paying homage to Hitchcock and the like. There are components of his movies I like but at others I'm totally put off by them -- like CARRIE I really don't care for. OBSESSION is pretty solid, still overrated by his fans too but the score is brilliant. THE FURY has a great score but there's too much of it that's relentlessly downbeat including the fizzle of an ending. DRESSED TO KILL is "icky" for lack of a better term, the seedy sexual content is a turn off for me. BODY DOUBLE kind of sucks. CASUALTIES OF WAR is lousy. WISE GUYS is a miss. BONFIRE (another good score too) is a baffling failure. SCARFACE is bloated and endless, but (un)intentionally fun in spurts. It looks great and Pacino is amusing but I wouldn't ever call it a good movie. That leaves BLOW UP, which is pretty strong on balance but sabotaged for me (in terms of wanting to revisit it) by the nihilistic ending.

My point is when he's "off", he's REALLY off, and had more bombs than any of the other major directors of his generation who hit the big time. By the early '90s and too many duds (it's pretty much over for me at the lame RAISING CAIN), it was pretty much over for him as a major player in Hollywood.

[Eric Paddon]

I have to admit one reason why I've never seen "Untouchables" over the years is that I've found I just don't care for the story itself. I tried to get into the old TV series when it made it to DVD and I found it much too cold and harsh for my tastes. Perhaps the movie was more entertaining but I've never found 20s-30s gangster stories something I'd watch (I haven't even seen "Little Caesar" for that matter).

I forgot, I did see "The Fury" once and I wasn't that impressed even before Cassavetes's grisly demise at the end (Remember, I'm the one who was traumatized for life as a kid by the melting Nazis in "Raiders" which is why I have *never* seen any of the other Indy films)

The "ick" factor you describe about "Dressed To Kill" reminds me of how I reacted to Frankenheimer's awful "52 Pick-Up" which made me want to take a shower (after I'd first thrown the Blu-Ray away!) because of it's non-stop barrage of porno shop scenes.

One thing about "Bonfire" I must share. I have become good friends with Walker Joyce, a former musical theater actor whose one attempt at a feature film was "Bonfire" when he found himself cast as the opera singer playing Don Giovanni, and it turned out the casting people were clueless about the fact his background was musical theater (he had been in the national tour of "Big River") not opera and as a result the filming of the opera scene was by his own admission the worst Don Giovanni performance ever (it was also the last piece of principal filming too). He ended up returning to New Jersey where he successfully ran a great community theater in Morristown in the late 90s (and played Franklin in an acclaimed production of "1776"). And he is also a true rarity among theater actors past and present: He's even more conservative than me!

[AndyDursin]

I can safely recommend The Untouchables. I was never into the old series and found it tedious to get into when I tried watching the DVDs. Outside the main premise I don't think it had much to do with the old show, the movie has a big widescreen canvas, one of Connery's best performances and one of Morricone's best scores too. It's DePalma's "fullest" piece of pop entertainment that pretty much works across the board.

Great story on your friend Eric...was that the theater that you upload videos from? Oh and Theo shares your dislike for the Raiders melting man, he seems to have an aversion to that kind of gross out makeup effect (he's never going to want to see The Fly lol).

[Eric Paddon]

Yes, all of those theater videos on my page are from the productions he produced at the Bickford Theater in Morristown from 1995-2001 when he was then forced to resign as part of a power struggle with the director of the Museum that the Theater is housed in. He gave me his VHS tapes he had on file to let me transfer and I've put up what I can (still have a dozen others, though they're all straight plays or very obscure musicals. "1776" and "She Loves Me" were the only two better-known musical titles they put on)

Yeah, I'm sure Theo would avoid "The Fly" just like me. Will that also be true of "The Thing"? (I've avoided that one too. "Alien" I can handle sort of)