Paint It Black is a 1989 American thriller film directed by Tim Hunter and starring Rick Rossovich, Sally Kirkland, Doug Savant, Julie Carmen, and Martin Landau.

[1] The film had a troubled production history, as the original director Roger Holzberg was replaced by Hunter following his work on the acclaimed River's Edge.

[3] The script underwent so many changes that writers Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod chose to be credited in the finished film under the pseudonyms Michael Drexler and A.H.

He is involved with the gallery owner Marion Easton, who keeps the sole rights to his work and promises to give him a one-man show for his art.

TV Guide wrote the film is "a retrograde attempt to revive the Alfred Hitchcock thrillers of yore (especially Strangers on a Train), with an unfortunate emphasis on artifice and contrivance".