Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill is a 1980 horror film written and directed by Brian de Palma. It starred Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen. The original music score is composed by Pino Donaggio.

Plot summary

Sexually frustrated housewife and mother Kate Miller visits her New York City psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Elliott, to complain about her unfulfilling erotic life. When she the goes to meet her husband at a museum, she meets an unknown man whom she follows out to a taxicab. After an afternoon of satisfying sex, Kate discovers that the unknown man has a venereal disease, but that information becomes a moot point when a razor-wielding blonde woman slashes Kate to ribbons in the elevator of the man's building.

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Blonde prostitute Liz Blake, who caught a glimpse of the murderer, becomes both the prime suspect and the killer's next target. With the police less than willing to believe her story, Liz joins forces with Kate's son Peter to get the psychopath themselves. The murderer has been finally revealed as Dr. Elliott, a transsexual, is arrested by the police and placed in a mental asylum. In a dream sequence, Dr. Elliott escapes from the asylum and slashes Liz in the throat in a bloody act of vengence.

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