Kill Me Deadly
The film noir satire called “Kill Me Deadly” is one of the funniest satires to hit the theater scene in quite awhile. And it does it in a way that’s not just zany screaming the whole time. It’s at once subtle and broad at the same time. The main character is well played by Dean Lamont, with the right vocal style and everything from the heroic character in a film noir. The woman counterpart is a combination of Mae West and Liza Minelli (the southern version), where she can go from being selfish to helpless in the space of a sentence or two. This is done very well and makes it both fitting the style but also very funny indeed. The plot, which deals with a cursed ruby that kills a wealthy heiress and turns it into a murder mystery, is like a combination of all the most predictable plots in the genre and surprises everyone with how fine a point it puts on it!