Kiss Me Deadly | Blu-ray

One of the most creative of the classic studio Noirs, Robert Aldrich's 1955 adaptation of the Mickey Spillane novel became a touchstone for the New Wave cinema movements of the 60s and 70s.

Essentially constructed like a classic piece of hard-boiled detective fiction, the actual plot of Kiss Me Deadly is something much stranger. A stolen box that glows and emits a huge amount of heat, murderous thugs, dangerous double crosses. It's a more violent and more sinister picture in a genre testing the edges of Hays Code oversight.

It's not the most tightly plotted or stylistically composed piece of Noir fiction out there, but Kiss Me Deadly is an essential part of the genre and a highly influential picture for the decades of more experimental film that followed.