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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Vincent Price’s elegant, theatrical killer turns murder into grotesque performance art, matching the macabre humor, flamboyant disguises, and stylized cat-and-mouse pleasure of No Way to Treat a Lady.
02
Why this pick
A grandly theatrical avenger targets his victims through elaborate Shakespeare-inspired set pieces; it shares the original’s relish for performance, dark comedy, and a killer whose identity is inseparable from acting.
03
Why this pick
Its impeccably mannered serial murderer and bone-dry wit offer a more aristocratic counterpart to Christopher Gill: charming surfaces, multiple personas, and murder treated with deliciously dark comic precision.
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Why this pick
Another mordantly funny urban thriller about a strangler, with a brisk investigative thread and an unsettling contrast between everyday civility and predatory violence.
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Why this pick
This grim, deadpan portrait of a murderous pair trades theatrical disguises for damaged intimacy, but preserves the uncomfortable humor and unnervingly mundane texture around serial violence.
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01 / THE STORY
Christopher Gill (Rod Steiger) is a serial killer fixated on his late mother, a noted stage actress. Gill preys on older women. A Broadway theatre theatre owner and director, he adopts various disguises, e.g., priest, policeman, plumber, hairdresser, etc., to put his victims at ease (and avoid being identified) before strangling them and painting a pair of lips on their foreheads with garish red lipstick.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Kate Palmer
Inspector Haines
Mrs. Fitts
Lieutenant Dawson
Detective Monaghan
Alma Mulloy
Christopher Gill
Morris Brummel
