The It's 1980 and a sexually frustrated housewife finds herself being stalked by a handsome stranger in a shopping mall.

She winds up in his apartment and after a long night of passion she goes to leave in the middle of the night.

But waiting for her in the elevator is a tall

homicidal blonde woman wielding a very sharp razor blade. In the dawn of the 1980s, studios began churning out cheap Halloween imitators as a way to draw

young audiences and make a quick buck.

But it's important to remember that some directors were still lending an innovative spin to the slasher.

Brian DeParmer was looking back beyond Halloween, drawing inspiration from Hitchcock, jallow,

in order to make one of the strangest, most disturbing psychosexual

slasher movies in the history of the genre.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the slasher and discuss Brian DeParmas dressed to kill. This is Bobby. I borrowed your razor.

Hello and welcome back to the podcast. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. If you're joining us for the first time then welcome

this podcast explores the history of the genre by reviewing key horror movies week by week.

We're currently in the midst of exploring the evolution of the slasher and this is part six.

We're going to be talking all things Brian DeParmer and Dressed to Kill.

We're also going to talk briefly about another Brian Deparma film from a few years later called

Body Double. Just so you know, the Dress to Kill review will be a spoiler-rific in-depth review. Body-dubble will talk about not quite as in depth.

It won't be quite a spoilerific.

So if you haven't seen body double, don't worry as much.

Predominantly, we will be looking at the cult classic Dressed to Kill.

Now before we get started don't forget you can get in touch with us any time do email evolution of

horror at gmail dot com or you can tweet us at evolution. You can find our podcast on all major

podcast platforms and once again I'm going to say a big thank you to everyone that has

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