Kill by Inches is a 1999 independent film written and directed by Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur Flam. The film premiered September 12, 1999 at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Discovery section. It opened in New York City on October 26, 2001.
A deranged young tailor descends into madness and murder.
Creepy poem over opening scene:
In the dead of winter,<br>at the Tailor's Parade,<br>a little boy was given<br>a pair of scissorblades,<br>for his father was a tailor.<br>"Go and steal our father's tape measure,"<br>said the sister to her brother,<br>and with the scissorblades,<br>the little boy cut up his father's tape measure...<br>But the old man saw<br>and took his boy by the neck<br>as the sister watched with delight,<br>her brother forced through the night<br>to keep his mouth wide open<br>and in agony swallow<br>every last piece of the tape measure,<br>inch by inch, down his throat,<br>till nothing was left.