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A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
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75
Deathtrap is a wonderful windup fiction machine with a few modest ambitions: It wants to mislead us at every turn, confound all our expectations, and provide at least one moment when we levitate from our seats and come down screaming.
70
One can still appreciate the professionalism with which Levin crafted them and the larky spirits with which the performers force the suspension of incredulity.
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
As a psychological thriller, it's not so much either thrilling or psychological as it is wonderfully absurd. [25 Mar 1982]
63
Deathtrap falls short of the classic potential it would obviously like to have. Still, it's a jaunty entertainment, by and large.
63
This is an extremely faithful film adaptation of Ira Levin's gimmicky stage play.
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