Who Wants to Kill Jessie?

Who Wants to Kill Jessie?

A comedy about a prohibited beauty.

Directed by Václav Vorlíček

Produced by Filmové studio Barrandov

196681 min7.0 / 10

A gleefully absurdist Czechoslovakian romp where a dream-projection machine malfunction unleashes cartoon chaos into reality, blending sci-fi premise with slapstick comedy and surreal visual gags.

In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!

Questions people ask

  • Is Who Wants to Kill Jessie? sad? Barely. Less sad than 89% of films.

  • Does Who Wants to Kill Jessie? end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 70% of films.

  • Is Who Wants to Kill Jessie? easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 67% of films.

  • Is Who Wants to Kill Jessie? scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Is Who Wants to Kill Jessie? violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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78/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Distinctly its own thing.

Rarity75

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise91

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love70

How much audiences actually like it

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