Two weeks later, as her cast mates are rehearsing for William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Ann is raped and strangled by the same man in the loft above the theatre.

Thinking the killer could strike this particular theatre again, Detective Winston Rains goes undercover as the play's leading man in an effort to catch him.

When questioned about his motives, Andy breaks down, implies his mother molested him as a child, and claims that he did not mean to kill his victims, and that he assaulted them due to his own feelings of inadequacy.

AV Maniacs wrote "awkwardly overacted from start to finish, this creaky murder mystery isn't exactly an edge of your seat thriller, but it is a fun little movie" and "if you dig that bad acting, awkward cinematography, wonky wardrobe, and generally enjoyable ineptitude that seventies smut tends to offer en masse, you should have a good time with it.

[1] A two out of ten was awarded by The Movies Made Me Do It, which stated that Come Deadly was an unintentionally comical exercise in ineptitude, with terrible editing and acting, and a lame mystery.