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An anxious young tailor dominated by his father, a master of the craft, is eager to do well with his clients, but his inadequacy in measuring leaves him frustrated and humiliated. His younger sister - an expert seamstress - arrives back in town, discovers his measuring weakness and begins a cruel reign of terror over him, humiliating him endlessly in front of customers. Pushed to the edge, the young tailor heads down the nightmarish road to insanity and murder.

If you really enjoy films where virtually nothing happens and there&#39;s almost no dialog, Kill By Inches should definitely be on your list of &quot;must-sees&quot;. If you&#39;re more like me and prefer movies where people actually do things and say stuff, avoid Kill By Inches like the plague. This story is all about Thomas (Emannuel Salinger), an old fashioned tailor in a big city who lives in a rundown apartment above his dilapidated shop. Thomas&#39; father (Marcus Powell) is also a tailor, but he has little use for his son. Thomas, you see, is terrible at taking measurements. Thomas&#39; sister Vera (Myriam Cyr) is a much better tailor and is much closer to their father. When Vera returns to the city and starts living in Thomas apartment and working in his shop, her talents only emphasize Thomas&#39; limitations. Then a weird sewing machine repairman named Hector (Christopher Zach) shows up at Thomas&#39; shop and starts flirting with Vera. Here is literally everything else that happens in the film. An endless series of people come in for measurements. There&#39;s an even more endless stream of scenes where Thomas is walking. Vera huffs into a plastic bottle and smears black stuff over her chest. Two terrible things happen and then Thomas wins the measurement competition at the annual Tailor&#39;s Ball. Oh, and Thomas silently stares at everybody. Now, you may think I&#39;m leaving something out, because how could all of that add up to any sort of story? Well, I haven&#39;t and it doesn&#39;t. Kill By Inches is like a strange, 8 page story written by one of those manic-depressive authors of the 19th century that&#39;s been stretched out on a taffy-pulling machine until it filled up 85 minutes of screen time. This film doesn&#39;t even deserved to be called bad, because that would imply there&#39;s something there to be judged. This movie is a void, an overly mannered abyss. I can&#39;t see any point in anyone watching this film. I can&#39;t see what the point was of making this film. Now, there could be some meaning or symbolism to Kill By Inches that I just don&#39;t get. If there is, though, I&#39;m pretty sure I don&#39;t want to get it and am not missing anything by not getting it.

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Kill by Inches

Even though this film is in color, I couldn&#39;t help but notice the darkly subtle touches which reminded me of early David Lynch (Right down to the main character Thomas being Henry&#39;esque from Eraserhead) and Darren Aronofsky&#39;s &quot;?&quot;. Tension, paranoia, and overall uneasiness shape this movie from beginning to end. The soundtrack is also highly effective in conveying Thomas&#39; descent into measuring madness. I recommend this if my description seems interesting to you.

I caught this film in New York and it left me creeped out. It may not be for everyone, but if you like cinematic films with a Hitchcockian flavor, old Polanski thrillers, Greenaway, or Lynch type of stuff, you&#39;ll probably appreciate it. It&#39;s not a gore or exploitation film, but takes its time and sucks you in, little by little, into the world of the deranged young tailor. It&#39;s more about psychological deterioration, like the feeling you get when you haven&#39;t slept for many days and you start seeing things, imagining horrors, or getting paranoid. The final ballroom scene fascinated me with the outrageous dancers and leering old tailors. I would recommend it to anyone interested in bizarre or different films.

I saw this film on DVD. Really creepy stuff. I couldn&#39;t help wondering why it was so creepy. First, the music is very eerie. And also the visual, with very strange colors, almost candy-like. The actor looks like a french Robert Downey junior. This film could have been made as an animation. It&#39;s so detailed with fantasy and fairy tales themes. It&#39;s worth taking a look at it. I&#39;ve never seen a film quite like this before. The story is very bizarre, a tailor going on a mad rampage! The kid who plays in the film is very cute and a pretty good actor. The film reminded me of a lynch/ Gilliam atmosphere with strange characters.

May contain spoiler! Kill by Inches is a very interesting film. It&#39;s very quiet and chilling. I felt sorry for Thomas and I found myself loathing his father and his sister Vera who seemed to push Thomas into insanity. When they were children, Vera gets Thomas to cut up their father&#39;s tape measure. Thomas gets in trouble with his father and is made to eat every inch. SPOILER!!!!!I really wish Vera&#39;s death was more gruesome. She was literally killed by inches with a tape measure contraption Thomas created. A good movie!

I saw Kill By Inches at the Brussels International Fantasy Film Festival 2000 (last year) and I can say it was the most unique and stunningly original film there. Great cast of strange characters. I was truly struck by the studied, chilling atmosphere and dark mood in this story of a young tailor (played by Emmanuel Salinger) who goes insane, inch by inch by inch, by degrees. Very singular, unique film, very rare to see these days.

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Kill by Inches

Move along. Nothing to see here.

Eraserhead meets Pi

spine-tingling inches

Strange

Interesting

A bizarre, chilling film.

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