Love Me Deadly

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Love Me Deadly

Hmm...well i have no idea why this is rated slow low. Cool 70's fashion, a chick that's into necrophilia and ......Lyle Waggoner! Although this plays like a TV movie from the 70's with nudity, some gore and chicks fu**ing dead dudes, it's actually pretty good! The corpse loving isn't the thing that's messed up in this flick.......it's the beginning when the credits are rolling that you know things have gone into 42nd street sleaze. I wonder if Lyle Waggoner had this on his resume when he auditioned for Carol Burnett!

"Love Me Deadly" is nothing more than a severely dated time capsule from the 1970s. It all starts with some pretty annoying vocals, followed by some very annoying piano music. By way of flashbacks we gradually are enlightened as to why the heroine prefers dead men in bed, rather than her husband. What is not enlightening is the totally dead space filled with walking around art galleries, driving to funeral homes, strolling in the park, barbecuing, sitting in front of a fireplace, etc. etc. etc. I would say that the only thing "genuinely deeply shocking" about "Love Me Deadly" is how shockingly boring it is. Even uncut and uncensored, this is a real yawn fest. - MERK

This great, sadly neglected piece of 70's sleaze is much better than the later, more well-known NEKROMANTIK.For me, the most disturbing scene was not the corpse sex, but the blood draining sequence. This must have turned heads back in '72. Recommended.

To be honest, when one reads the synopsis of this film one expects the worst. Surprisingly, this is an engaging and frank study both of necrophilia and of a daughter's inability to let go of the past. Helped along by a very professional sounding theme tune (sung by Kit Fuller), and a lively score echoing films of much more mainstream cinema, this is a shocking film that will make you think for a long time afterwards. Unfortunately, the good acting and imaginative story is let down by some chronically bad editing - particularly when we are suddenly introduced to the character of Alex - but this aside, you should find much more to enjoy about this movie than you will find to dislike about it. "Love Me Deadly" is to necrophilia what "Max Mon Amour" is to bestiality: one of the last taboos to be tackled in an grown-up fashion, but which can be appreciated by an audience without needing to visit a seedy sex-shop; where story comes first, and titillation is far down the line.

Lindsay (Mary Charlotte Wilcox) has a dead daddy issue which manifests itself with her attending funerals so she can give the young male corpse a long kiss. She is found our by a cult of necrophiliacs who for some reason wear hooded robes like a satanic cult. She also marries Lyle Waggoner which really doesn't work out because he wants to be on top and move and stuff. That is pretty much it. Add some Mary Wilcox nudity, including some male nudity Well preserved for a 1972 film. Most likely because they didn't show it much. Not too many extras.

This is the precursor to modern art-horror hybrids like KISSED or NEKROMANTIK. A frigid woman who likes funerals and is turned on only by dead bodies enters into a sexless marriage with CAROL BURNETT SHOW stud Lyle Waggoner and secretly joins a cult of necrophiliacs in a local morgue. For a film that had so much perverse and ghoulish potential, this film only partially entertains. There's a particularly shocking scene early in the film of a guy being embalmed alive but the film gets bogged down in the drama of marital problems in the second hour. While the serious approach to such outrageous material is greatly appreciated, a little more ghoulish horror would've been nice.