Dressed to Kill

Since 1980, the Golden Raspberry Awards, the anti-Oscars, have ‘honoured’ the worst Hollywood films of a season. And from the very beginning, actually especially at the beginning, queer titles have appeared among these films. Let’s take a look at them – these are by no means forgotten relics of a bygone era, but queer classics that are still present in the conversation. Are these in fact unsuccessful, bad films, (un)worthy of the Golden Raspberry Awards? Or was it the award’s chapter at the time that was homo-, transphobic and not ready for the representation of the rainbow community in the mainstream films of the year? We’ll take a look at three films and see how they have stood the test of time and how they are received by audiences anno Domini 2025!

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In 1980, Brian De Palma, master of stylish crime and thrillers such as ‘Carrie’, ‘Untouchables’ and later on, ‘Mission Impossible’, creates another masterfully directed thriller.

Psychoanalyst, Dr Robert Elliott, experiences the worst moments of his life when he discovers that a psychopathic murderer has begun terrorising the women around him. When a maniac steals a razor blade from the doctor’s office, Elliott begins to investigate on his own. Fearfully following the killer, the doctor begins to explore the dark recesses of his soul, tasting forbidden fantasies, obsessions and his worst nightmares….

Can a transphobic erotic thriller please us? ‘Dressed to Kill’ is one of the most transphobic films in the cinema’s history!!! Today we may perceive it in terms of absurdity, so much nonsense that it gains some camp quality, but decide it for yourselves, what label you are going to put on this film.