KISS ME DEADLY – A BLOODY BRILLIANT VAMPIRE CABARET is back (from the dead!) by popular demand, and a perfect way to spend your Halloween night or All Souls’ Day evening. Each ticket purchased will ...

Cinematic introductions don’t come more dramatic than the scene that introduced Cloris Leachman to the big screen in 1955’s Kiss Me Deadly. In the classic noir’s opening, a traumatized Leachman runs ...

Best extra: “Mike Hammer’s Mickey Spillane,” a 1998 documentary (in standard-def) about the writer THE BOOK WAS set in New York and involved the mob and drugs. The movie shifted the story to L.A. and ...

A young hitchhiker, wearing nothing but a trench coat, is running hysterically down the highway until she finds herself literally in the path of private detective Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker). Hammer ...

As in A.I. Bezzerides, the screenwriter of "Kiss Me Deadly," whose work will be celebrated in upcoming American Cinematheque retrospective "Written by A.I." It’s one of several stone-cold masterpieces ...

Studio/Running Time: Criterion, 104 min. Completely at random, Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) nearly runs over a girl wearing nothing but a trenchcoat. While she’s soon caught by the police, Hammer’s ...