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- 1991
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
- 1991
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
Summary A determined student murders his pregnant secret girlfriend and moves onto her twin sister who gradually becomes suspicious of her new lover.
Directed By: James Dearden
Written By: Ira Levin, James Dearden
- 1991
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
- 1991
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
A Kiss Before Dying
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Summary A determined student murders his pregnant secret girlfriend and moves onto her twin sister who gradually becomes suspicious of her new lover.
Directed By: James Dearden
Written By: Ira Levin, James Dearden
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
40
15% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
27% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
58% Negative
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
40
15% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
27% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
58% Negative
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
A Kiss Before Dying is low-level trash that works. It's far from ambitious, and even considered within the cheap-thriller category, this movie is nothing to make a fuss about. And yet the production is perfectly watchable. [03 May 1991, p.6]
What's missing here though is the novel's trick of being a wonderfully contrived mystery on the surface while underneath lurks an angry and upsetting analysis of class injustice in the USA.
Deceptions drive A Kiss Before Dying. Too bad they're too implausible to impart any sense of believability in this bloody fantasy. [26 Apr 1991, p.10]
A Kiss Before Dying is another failed remake, never approaching the claustrophobic pressure of the far grittier and more highly charged 1956 version with Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward and Mary Astor. [26 Apr 1991, p.72]
For those of us who don’t fancy ourselves connoisseurs of badness, A Kiss Before Dying is less than delectable. It’s a real botch-a-thon, and it gets worse as it goes along.
A Kiss Before Dying is nothing if not devious. But it's also a textbook example of incompetent direction. [29 Apr 1991, p.C5]
With its waxy color scheme and nonexistent pace, the movie is like an homage to Hitchcock’s worst period.
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