In this inventive Czech sci-fi comedy, a scientist creates a machine that brings dreams to life only for chaos to erupt when characters from a comic strip enter the real world. A superhero, a cowboy, and the voluptuous Jessie materialize in Prague, blurring the lines between fantasy, reality, and slapstick absurdity. Mixing satire, surreal humor, and comic-book stylization, Who Wants to Kill Jessie? remains a cult gem of 1960s European cinema.

From the director of Three Wishes for Cinderella, Václav Vorlíceks Who Wants to Kill Jessie? is a delightfully demented, absurdist 1966 comic book fantasy that is unlike anything else in the Czech New Wave - and presages the DC and Marvel comic book franchises by several decades.

A scientist creates a serum designed to calm the dreams of restless cows, but tests it out on her husband who has been dreaming about the adventures of comic book heroine Jessie. Disaster ensues when the drug causes the characters from her husbands dreams to manifest in the real world...

Co-written by Milos Macourek (Happy End), Who Wants to Kill Jessie? is a deliriously off-the-wall gem. Exploding with ingenuity and wild ideas, the film audaciously subverts the fledgling superhero genre whilst offering a subtle but healthy dose of satire aimed at communist oppressors.

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What if someone had an absurd dream and the visions ran out in the street? a scientist asks Rose, a researcher who discovers a way to engender beneficial dreams (to produce contented, productive workers). Theres a problem: after an injection of her elixir, dream elements become real. Rose learns this after dosing her husband Henry to stop his dreaming about Jessie, a curvaceous comic-book heroine who has anti-gravitational gloves he needs to study so he can solve a problem at the factory where hes chief engineer: Henry wakes up with Jessie asleep next to him pursued by a cowboy