Killer's Kiss (1955) is a film by Stanley Kubrick. It was Kubrick's second feature, and the earliest still available (he removed his first film Fear and Desire from circulation over his displeasure for it). Kubrick was 26 years old when he directed this...
The cadavers are kept in the basement of University College London medical school and are worked on in a room tiled in cold white. The 20- year-old medical student, a white coat protecting her sweater and jeans, is cutting carefully into the face of...
Baltimore Afro-American 08-26-2005 The mayor and the Baltimore City Council have thrown a big kiss to the citizens of Baltimore by tentatively approving the construction of a city-owned convention center hotel earlier this week. What was preceded by weeks of an unending series of...
The difference between [Fear and Desire] and [Killer's Kiss] is striking; although Killer's Kiss is a melodrama too full of familiar and not always skilful contrivances, it has a simplicity of outline, an atmospheric power, a directness in its characterisation, that suggests a maturing and distinctive personality…. [The] melodrama is the least successful, most derivative aspect of the film; its real originality lies in its approach to characterisation and atmosphere…. By contrast...
