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Kiss Me Deadly
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy hardboiled investigations with cynical protagonists, brutal momentum, and an unsettling descent from private violence into larger existential menace.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, eerie
- Payoff
- unease, revelation
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- vengeance, paranoia, corruption, forbidden knowledge, moral decay
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, shadowy highways, coastal homes, and urban back rooms