
A movie so dark and perverse
to sweetness and light it's averse
Its cynical "hero"
is lower than zero
and credits are run in reverse

Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955). Barely escaping annihilation are private detective Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) and girl Friday, Velda (Maxine Cooper). Here's an earlier Deadly limerick. Photo source: Only the Cinema