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The Honeymoon Killers (1970)

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The Honeymoon Killers

Leonard Kastle | USA | 1970 | M
Film

When

Wed 9 Apr 2025

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An obsessive nurse forces her attentions upon an underwhelming grifter. Before long the affair mutates into a swindling and killing spree of bizarre violence and petite bourgeois self-delusion. This twisted tale, loosely based on late ’40s noirish facts updated to the crass aesthetics of the ’60s, is both a cult gross-out classic and a witty fable of deluded love and moral paradox.

Initially helmed by Martin Scorsese and based on the infamous “Lonely Hearts Killers” case, it was taken over by screenwriter and opera director Kastle for his only feature. 35mm print.

Format: 35mm
Language: English
Source: Potential Films
Courtesy: Hollywood Classics
Runtime: 107 mins

Event duration

107 mins

Rating

M

Medium level violence

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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