Each Time I Kill

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| name = Each Time I Kill

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| director = Doris Wishman

| producer = Michael Bowen

| writer = Dawn Whitman

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| starring = Tiffany Paralta
Rob Vidal
Linnea Quigley
Lisa Ferber
Jackie Gold

| music = James Sizemore

| cinematography = C. Davis Smith

| editing = Michael Hargett
Luigi Manicottale

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| released = {{Film date|2007|03|30}}

| runtime = 82 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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Each Time I Kill is the final film that was written and directed by Doris Wishman.{{cite web|title=Doris Wishman, 'B' Film Director, Dies|first=Douglas|last=Martin|date=August 19, 2002|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/movies/doris-wishman-b-film-director-dies.html|work=The New York Times}} It was shot in 2002 shortly before Wishman's death from lymphoma,{{Cite book |last1=Cline |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VKhqh3HFH8AC&dq=doris+wishman+each+time+I+kill&pg=PA63 |title=From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse: Highbrow and Lowbrow Transgression in Cinema's First Century |last2=Weiner |first2=Robert G. |date=2010-07-17 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7655-2 |language=en}} and post-production on the teen horror thriller{{Citation |last=Heller-Nicholas |first=Alexandra |title=2 The Girls in the Mirror: Women's Horror Filmmaking and Doris Wishman's Each Time I Kill |date=2022-04-05 |pages=32–46 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781474482363-007/html?lang=en |access-date=2024-05-12 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |language=en |doi=10.1515/9781474482363-007 |isbn=978-1-4744-8236-3|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite book |last=LLC |first=SPIN Media |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NhMpG7hKAr0C&dq=doris+wishman+each+time+I+kill&pg=PA128 |title=SPIN |date=1998 |publisher=SPIN Media LLC |language=en}} was completed in October 2006.{{Cite book|title = From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse: Highbrow and Lowbrow Transgression in Cinema's First Century|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VKhqh3HFH8AC|publisher = Scarecrow Press|date = 2010-07-17|isbn = 9780810876552|language = en|first1 = John|last1 = Cline|first2 = Robert G.|last2 = Weiner|page = 63}} Tiffany Paralta stars as Ellie Saunders, a shy high school senior who finds a magical locket which will allow her to exchange one physical feature with anyone she murders.

The director of photography was longtime Wishman collaborator C. Davis Smith, and cameo appearances were made by The B-52's frontman Fred Schneider{{Cite web |title=EACH TIME I KILL |url=https://www.trylon.org/film/each-time-i-kill/ |access-date=2024-05-12 |website=Trylon Microcinema |language=en-US}} and scream queen Linnea Quigley.

Each Time I Kill received its world premiere on March 30, 2007, at the New York Underground Film Festival and was also selected by the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.{{cite web | title = 'Inclusive' is key word for Gay & Lesbian Film Festival| publisher = Philadelphia Daily News | url = http://www.philly.com/dailynews/features/20070713_Inclusive_is_key_word_for_Gay___Lesbian_Film_Festival.html| author = Howard Gensler | accessdate = 2007-07-22 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929132143/http://www.philly.com/dailynews/features/20070713_Inclusive_is_key_word_for_Gay___Lesbian_Film_Festival.html |archivedate = 2007-09-29}}