When Phillip claims he doesn’t eat meat, Janet remarks, “How queer.” The mostly negligible and cliché signifiers established a pattern in Hollywood movies that, for years, associated queerness with murderers and deviants. A similar theme permeates Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951), leading to movies such as Cruising (1980), Dressed to Kill (1980), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and Basic Instinct (1992). While none of these examples directly makes a grand statement linking queerness to murderous impulses, their cumulative effect perpetuated harmful associations that the LGBTQ+ community would protest.
— Brian Eggert (Deep Focus Review)
Synopsis: Two longtime friends attempt to prove that they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party with the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.