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Pretty Poison Reviews

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Easygoing but psychotic Dennis (Anthony Perkins) is released from jail, where he has served a sentence for his complicity in a suspicious death. Wandering through a small, working-class New England town, Dennis befriends apparently normal high school A-student Sue Ann (Tuesday Weld). He fills her head with lies about his .. Read more

Starring	Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland, John Randolph
Director	Noel Black
Genres	Drama

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- Ever since this corrosive tale of insidious madness and deceptive innocence in Small Town USA, buffs have sought out... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:18
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- - 4
  - 0
  cult written all over it
  
  A brief reference was made in an article I read on 1970’s cinema which made me curious so I thought I’d give it a look. A somewhat deranged Anthony ... read more »
  
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  - chungking
  - 101 reviews
  - London
  - 03 Nov 2005 at 20:32
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  Did the boy Perkins ever do any other act?
  
  An intriguing look at manipulation and isolation, but mired in type casting and the late '60s. And Tuesday Weld is a hell of a name.
  
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- - Slurs
  - Scotland
  - 28 Feb 2010 at 13:58
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  strange?
  
  I never got to grips with this quite. it's interesting to try and figure out who is doing what. It's good movie I gues.
  
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  - London
  - 22 Dec 2008 at 23:24
- - 0
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  Sweet as you like
  
  A welcome re-release for this 60s classic, which hopefully will give it the wider audience it so deserves.
  
  Anthony Perkins is superb as the psychotic... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 27 Sep 2006 at 00:18
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  - 1
  Pathetic film.
  
  I randomly came across this film,read the synopsis, got a hunch that it would be good and rented the film. Within two minutes of watching the film i could tell ... read more »
  
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- - Rob Pickles
  - Manchester
  - 05 Feb 2006 at 19:09
- - 4
  - 0
  cult written all over it
  
  A brief reference was made in an article I read on 1970’s cinema which made me curious so I thought I’d give it a look. A somewhat deranged Anthony ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 169758
- - chungking
  - 101 reviews
  - London
  - 03 Nov 2005 at 20:32
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- - 4
  - 0
  cult written all over it
  
  A brief reference was made in an article I read on 1970’s cinema which made me curious so I thought I’d give it a look. A somewhat deranged Anthony ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 169758
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - chungking
  - 101 reviews
  - London
  - 03 Nov 2005 at 20:32
- - 0
  - 0
  Sweet as you like
  
  A welcome re-release for this 60s classic, which hopefully will give it the wider audience it so deserves.
  
  Anthony Perkins is superb as the psychotic... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 289463
- - a customer
  - London
  - 27 Sep 2006 at 00:18
- - 0
  - 0
  strange?
  
  I never got to grips with this quite. it's interesting to try and figure out who is doing what. It's good movie I gues.
  
  Report this review
- 676542
- - a customer
  - London
  - 22 Dec 2008 at 23:24
- - 0
  - 0
  Did the boy Perkins ever do any other act?
  
  An intriguing look at manipulation and isolation, but mired in type casting and the late '60s. And Tuesday Weld is a hell of a name.
  
  Report this review
- 867166
- - Slurs
  - Scotland
  - 28 Feb 2010 at 13:58
- - 0
  - 1
  Pathetic film.
  
  I randomly came across this film,read the synopsis, got a hunch that it would be good and rented the film. Within two minutes of watching the film i could tell ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 202921
- - Rob Pickles
  - Manchester
  - 05 Feb 2006 at 19:09

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Critics' reviews
- Ever since this corrosive tale of insidious madness and deceptive innocence in Small Town USA, buffs have sought out... read more on Time Out
- 48397
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:18
- Bizarre black comedy-melodrama, quite successfully mixed and served.
- 35074
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
- The connoisseur's Bonnie and Clyde
- 24034
- - The Observer
  - 29 Jan 2006 at 16:11
- Tightrope Tension
- 24033
- - The News Of The World
  - 29 Jan 2006 at 16:11
- Alarmingly good
- 24032
- - Evening Standard
  - 29 Jan 2006 at 16:11

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  Easygoing but psychotic Dennis (Anthony Perkins) is released from jail, where he has served a sentence for his complicity in a suspicious death. Wandering through a small, working-class New England town, Dennis befriends apparently normal high school A-student Sue Ann (Tuesday Weld). He fills her ...