Love Me Deadly
Love Me Deadly
R | 05 January 1973 (USA)
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A young socialite struggling to control her necrophiliac urges is torn between her affection for a kind businessman and the mortician who supplies her with bodies.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Brightlyme

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

WillSushyMedia

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

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Calum Hutton

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

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redrobin62-321-207311

I gave this movie an eight mainly because of the dark subject matter and all the taboos on display: necrophilia, pedophilia, murder, infidelity, gay pedophilia, etc. I'm glad to have lived this long to see a film like this. That it even came from the US is a wonder.Why, oh, why can't they do films like this anymore? How did society get so...lame? Of course, with today's production values, 'Love Me Deadly' could never be made because a more graphic representation would clear the cinema, leaving behind the sickos like me who don't mind being challenged visually and psychologically.Instead, Hollywood continues to unload derivate, unoriginal tripe like 'Huff' ('Big Bad Wolf') and others of its ilk. To be sure, this movie tends to be melodramatic, but to me that's okay. That was pretty much the style at the time - cheese. Still, what other bit of celluloid can you find that touches upon all those taboos? The cinematography was good with lots of colour, but not great because quite a few frames were out of focus. Minor complaint, though. It's the themes that matter and it'd sure be nice if they made movies that pushes the envelope like this again.

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BA_Harrison

As a little girl, Lindsay and her father are inseparable—until she accidentally blows daddy's face off with his shotgun. Emotionally scarred by this tragic incident, Lindsay grows up with serious psychological issues: she's attracted to men who remind her of her father, but can only become sexually aroused if, like dear old dad, they no longer have a pulse.I knew almost nothing about this film when I popped it into the DVD player; the last thing I expected was such a lurid shocker. Behind the fairly innocuous title and daytime soap-opera/70s TV movie look of Love Me Deadly lies one hell of a perverse tale, a taboo-busting story of necrophilia, obsession and murder, but one that portrays the lead character's deviancy in a surprisingly sympathetic light.Lovely Lindsay is clearly in need of treatment, but sadly the only assistance she gets comes in the form of Fred (Timothy Scott), murderous mortician and head of a cult of necrophiliac satanists, who helps Lindsay to satisfy her carnal urges by providing her with 'stiffs'. Lindsay attempts to conduct a normal relationship with kindly gallery owner Alex (Lyle Waggoner)—a dead ringer for daddy—even agreeing to marry him, but cannot give up those night-time visits to Fred's funeral parlour. Suspicious of his wife's behaviour, a frustrated Alex decides to investigate and is horrified by what he discovers...For 1973, this is incredibly daring stuff—not in the same league as later necro-classics like Lucker the Necrophagus or Nekromantik, but eye-opening all the same. Fred's murder of a gay hustler provides a gruesome highlight, the victim bled and embalmed while still alive, and Alex's discovery of his naked wife astride a cadaver and surrounded by cavorting cultists is brilliantly handled by Jacques Lacerte. I had my doubts as to whether the film would go this far, but to its credit, it doesn't wimp out.

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Scarecrow-88

Weirdo Lindsay Finch(Mary Charlotte Wilcox), with serious "daddy issues", is sexually impotent due to a past trauma involving the death of her father. Lindsay is a "funeral nut" who is obsessed with attending services for the dead, particularly of those men who resemble her father. Alex Martin(Lyle Waggoner, who favors Rock Hudson)is an art dealer who falls in love with Lindsay after seeing her in a funeral for his father. Martin and Lindsay eventually court and marry but he is frustrated that she won't put out. Lindsay soon becomes involved with a bizarre necrophilia cult led by mortician Fred McSweeney(a creepy Timothy Scott)using his funeral home as the place where their sex rituals take place. A friend of Lindsay's, Wade Farrow(Christopher Stone, future husband of scream queen Dee Wallace), who had an interest in her at one point, follows her to the funeral home, becoming one of many victims at the hand of Fred and his followers.I imagine many will find LOVE ME DEADLY somewhat interesting as it touches on necrophilia, a taboo subject, and one wonders if there was even some incest hinted at between Lindsay as a little girl and her father. I doubt the incest, but it's easy to see that Lindsay worshiped her pops and his presence has never left her. She must visit his grave site almost every day, and is compelled to eventually "molest the dead", something that may conclude that there was a sexual component alive between Lindsay and her dad. I guess that's for the viewer to decide. All I know is that she approaches bodies prepared by Fred for her and each time she's about to take to the corpse, someone interrupts. It's a disturbing aspect which might repulse some. But, most of the time, I was bored out of my mind, as the filmmakers insist on long musical interludes overlapping time spent together between Lindsay and Alex, or Lindsay and Wade; you know picnics, walking the streets, hand in hand, all smiles, warm and fuzzy. Soon Wade picks up another girl(he's a bit of a player), with Alex and Lindsay continuing their blossoming romance. From start to finish, Lindsay is shown to have a few screws loose, never stable, always drawn to dead men who carry a resemblance to her father. Fred just makes things worse by offering her a room with those men, inciting her desires, inviting Lindsay to follow her compulsions to fruition.

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haildevilman

Necrophilia has never been what one could call box office gold.This film tackled the subject admirably. Mary Wilcox plays a repressed necro whose secret gets made by a local with the same tastes.There's also a subplot about him accosting gay hustlers for that reason as well.A sick premise. But it was done very well. The acting was decent and the music was pretty good too. The outdoor scenes were also worth a look for their cinematography.This is one of the brightest fear films I've ever scene.It is slow moving. A lot of long romantic parts. And her self-discovery is handled with a lot of melodrama. If your looking for jump-shocks, not here. But there is good acting and slow fear coming.I won't tell you the back story. See it for yourself.

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