A hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, fumbles his latest job, putting him into conflict with his treacherous wife, with a mysterious woman eager for death and with the phantom-like hit-man known only as Number One.
Eraserhead meets Hard Boiled with a dash of Mad Magazine.
More of an instant hit than a slow-release of pleasure. But well worth it.
Genuinely fascinating and bizarre.
Several decades after its conception, Branded to Kill remains an arresting cocktail of sex, violence and surrealism, shot in monochrome hues which accentuate the perversity of the entire twisted venture.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow on Sunday July 27, 2014. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/