This Day in Halloween: Brian de Palma's first homage to Hitchcock "Dressed to Kill" opens across the U.S. in 1981. / Illustration by Laura Peyton Maurer
Dressed To Kill opens across the U.S. in 1980. The Brian De Palma homage to Alfred Hitchcock stars Michael Caine and Angie Dickinson and is a critical and popular hit, with Roger Ebert describing it as “an exercise in style, not narrative.” It remains a cult favorite.
