History Film / DeathWalksOnHighHeels

* ConspicuousGloves: Hallory, the CrustyCaretaker of Robert's cottage on the coast, is a strange, disheveled-looking man, who has prosthetic had constantly covered with a single black glove.

* CrustyCaretaker: Hallory, the caretaker of Robert's cottage on the coast, is a strange, disheveled-looking man, who has prosthetic had constantly covered with a [[ConspicuousGloves single black glove]]. He is mostly silent and spends much of his time onscreen staring lecherously at Nicole. He is later revealed to be a CreepyCrossdresser as well.

A French stripper is entrusted with her thieving father's last score, a million dollars worth of diamonds. After being threatened to handover the score, she leaves France to England in the company of a doctor, but danger follows.

* CorpseTemperatureTampering: Inspector Baxter visits the coroner’s office and after realizing that bodies kept on ice can alter the time of death becomes convinced that bricks of ice were used on Nicole’s body. This theory is confirmed by a visit to the other side of the cottage where a rope and anchor with room for a body and ice bricks is found in the water.

* CrustyCaretaker: Hallory, the caretaker of Robert's cottage on the coast, is a strange, disheveled looking man, who has prosthetic had constantly covered with a [[ConspicuousGloves single black glove]]. He is mostly silent, and spends much of his time onscreen staring lecherously at Nicole. He is later revealed to be a CreepyCrossdresser as well.

* FashionShopFashionShow: Combined with ShoppingMontage when Robert takes Nicole shopping for clothes in London: Nicole having fled Paris without any luggage.
* GentlemanThief: Nicole's father was one. He is murdered by someone searching for his last score : a million dollars worth of diamonds.

* ObfuscatingDisability: Smith, the blind man Robert has been treating has actually regained far more of his sight than is letting on, because it serves his purposes to have others believe he is totally blind. However, he still did not see who shot Roberts, as Robert had replaced the bandages over his eyes just before the shooting.

* ShoppingMontage: Combined with FashionShopFashionShow when Robert takes Nicole shopping for clothes in London: Nicole having fled Paris without any luggage.

* TaeKwonDoor: During the final fight, Michel catches Robert as he is attempting to get into a police car and slams the door into him several times. Robert then turns the tables and smash Michel in the face with the door.

* WrongNameOutburst: Coming out of surgery, and still under the effect of the anaesthetic, Robert murmurs the 'Nicole' over and over to his wife. Unfortunately, his wife's name is Vanessa and Nicole is the name of his mistress.

* ZipMeUp: The first time Robert visits Nicole is in her dressing room following her strip act. She gives him a polite brushoff while asking him to zip up her dress.

* NaughtyBirdWatching: Captain Lenny is a retired naval officer who keeps a telescope at his cottage window for looking out to sea. When Nicole moves into the cottage next door, he starts using it to watch her when he discovers she doesn't draw the curtains and likes walking around the house naked. This turns him into a RearWindowwitness when she is murdered while he is spying on her.

* ZipMeUp: The first time Robert visits Nicole is in her dressing room following her strip act. She gives him a polite brushoff while asking him to zip up her dress.

* EyeScream: A flashback reveals that Smith was blinded in an accident while breaking into a safe when a blowtorch flame lances across his face.

* BondAndGagged: When the killer confronts Nicole in her apartment, her cuts her dress and pulls it up around her head before using it to bind and gag her.

* CrustyCaretaker: Hallory, the caretaker of Robert's cottage on the coast, is a strange, disheveled looking man, who has prosthetic had constantly covered with a [[ConspicuousGloves single black glove]]. He is mostly silent, and spends much of his time onscreen staring lecherously at Nocole. He is later revealed to be a CreepyCrossdresser as well.

* VorpalPillow: The killer murders Nicole by smothering her with a cushion: the only one of his victims he does not kill by [[SlitThroat slitting their throat]].

* HorribleHangoverCure: Confronted with a drunk Michel, Inspector Baxter squeezes the juice of half a lemon into a cup of coffee and makes him drink it. After a few moments after drinking it, Michel throws up; which does sober him out.