Kill by Inches is a 1999 independent film written and directed by Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur Flam.

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,at the Tailor's Parade,a little boy was givena pair of scissorblades,for his father was a tailor.

"Go and steal our father's tape measure,"said the sister to her brother,and with the scissorblades,the little boy cut up his father's tape measure...But the old man sawand took his boy by the neckas the sister watched with delight,her brother forced through the nightto keep his mouth wide openand in agony swallowevery last piece of the tape measure,inch by inch, down his throat,till nothing was left.