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| “ | It wasn't the money. I don't think you have any idea what the Carlsson name means to me. We could have been happy, if only you'd let things be. But it's your father I feel sorry for. He doesn't need this, another tragedy. We'll both mourn you together. I'll be a great comfort to him. | „ |
| ~ Jonathan as he prepares to kill his wife, Ellen. |
Jonathan Corliss is the main antagonist in the 1991 film A Kiss Before Dying.
He is a psychopathic serial killer who murders his way into a wealthy family. He is based on the original film's antagonist, Bud Corliss.
He was portrayed by Matt Dillon, who also portrayed Patrick Healy in There's Something About Mary, Sam Lombardo in Wild Things, John Ryan in Crash, Trip Murphy in Herbie: Fully Loaded, and Jack in The House That Jack Built.
Biography[]
Jonathan grows up in a poor family, and is raised mostly by his mother after his father walks out on them. He becomes obsessed with the wealthy Carlsson family, and decides to join their ranks. In college, he has a relationship with one of the two Carlsson daughters, Dorothy, and apparently makes plans to marry her. When he gets Dorothy pregnant, however, he fears that her conservative father will disinherit her, and so decides to kill her. He tricks her into writing a poem that sounds like a suicide note, and then pushes her off a ledge to her death, making it look as though she committed suicide.
After killing Dorothy, he fakes his own suicide and steals the identity of Jay Faraday, a man who picks him up hitch-hiking and whom he subsequently proceeds to murder out of cold blood. Jonathan then begins dating Dorothy's sister, Ellen, and eventually marries her. He endears himself to Ellen's father, who gives him a well-paid job in his company. Ellen is obsessed with finding her sister's killer, however, and Jonathan kills several other people who can tie him to the crime.
Towards the end of the film, Ellen finally discovers the truth about Jonathan after visiting his old house and talking to Corliss' mother, who is heartbroken over her son's apparent death. After his mother leaves for work, Jonathan appears in the doorway and prepares to strangle Ellen with a belt. At the last moment, however, Ellen manages to stab him in the arm before escaping. Jonathan pursues her onto the nearby train tracks, but is run over by a freight train - ironically, the very Carlsson Copper train that he spent his entire childhood watching out his window.
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