This movie should win a raspberry award for being hands down the most boring film about necrophilia ever made. I thought it was gonna take a turn as an extreme roughie during the hustler pickup/murder scene, alas it goes back to being a mind numbingly slow burning soapy montage/talk fest. Just like the character's new husband has entered into a sexless marriage - we wait patiently for the female lead to get freaky with a corpse - after all, why else would you rent a movie about porking the dead? Yet we only get teased with the idea of it and the film drags on and on. Sucker for a cool movie poster? Beware - this movie sucks! Bored me to death. Take my word for it, it's a stinker worth skipping.

sickly movie indeed, although it's not as harsh as many other sickly movies out there anyway ...well, it was the times! and it still is somewhat today, perhaps even worse, with all the extremely gory movies of all types we're seeing in the last couple of decades or so ...apparently there are people out there who do really enjoy this kind of movie, just as they probably do enjoy being necrophiliacs ...for those seeking a full version of this movie, well, apparently there is one on YouTube, which i'm watching right now ...so, if it's truly the original copy and if it's going to be taken down soon, then why not hurry up and take a look as well as download it for yourself?

When C.M. Eddy, Jr.'s infamous short story "The Loved Dead" first appeared in the April/May/June 1924 issue of "Weird Tales," with its necrophilic protagonist, it so shocked and scandalized readers that--or so it is told--sales of the beleaguered pulp magazine rose dramatically, thus rescuing it from financial failure. The better part of a century later, the subject of necrophilia is no less taboo and discomfiting. I have reviewed several films on this site that I have almost been embarrassed to admit having watched (such as "The Worm Eaters," "The Double-D Avenger" and "Please Don't Eat My Mother," among many others), and I initially thought that the necrophilia horror film "Love Me Deadly," from 1972, would surely be another. But no...to my great surprise, I can say proudly that I really did enjoy this tasteful, suspenseful and quite involving picture.In the film, we meet an attractive blonde named Lindsay Finch (excellently portrayed by Mary Wilcox, in a role that would surely be a challenge for ANY actress). Lindsay's unusual pastime consists of going to the funerals of middle-aged men--total strangers in her hometown of L.A.--so that she can gaze rapturously at them in their caskets and maybe even sneak a kiss on them on the sly. Via flashback, we discover that Lindsay, as a little girl, was extremely close with her now-deceased daddy, and infer that this must have something to do with her current, uh, taste in men. But complications enter Lindsay's life as she simultaneously joins a necrophilic club of sorts (a bunch of REAL deadheads!) that operates out of a nearby mortuary, AND falls in love with and marries a man named Alex (hunky dude Lyle Waggoner, whom many may recall from his extensive TV work in the 1970s), who is perfect in every way except for the fact that he is, well, still breathing...."Love Me Deadly" is a genuine horror film, not just because of its distasteful subject matter, but because something horrible happens to practically every major character in it. Though fairly restrained, it DOES feature several shocking bursts of violence; the first, in which the owner of that mortuary lures a "midnight cowboy" to his doom via a little instantaneous embalming, is kinda hard to watch (I. William Quinn, as the screaming hustler, is outstanding here, and frighteningly convincing). Some may dock the film some points for pushing credulity to the breaking point as regards Alex' beyond-human patience with his frigid wife, but this viewer had no problems there. The film becomes extremely suspenseful as Alex grows suspicious of Lindsay's increasingly whacky behavior and gets closer to discovering her secret, and we are treated to a fairly devastating finale, as--again via flashback--we learn the shocking truth about Lindsay's past. Writer/director Jacques Lacerte turns in a highly professional bit of work here--this is not at all a shoddy B picture--and composer Phil Moody's background music is just superb. Indeed, his "Love Me Deadly" theme song, as sung by Kit Fuller, could almost be the theme for a Bond movie! All this, and a happy ending, too, of sorts, for poor Lindsay, although how long that happiness will endure is anybody's guess. One more thing: This great-looking DVD from Media Blasters features coming attractions for nine other remarkable-looking "psychotronic" films. The picture entitled "Shadow: Dead Riot"--a women's prison/zombie mashup flick--looks just unbelievable!

Actually quite a well-made and off-beat thriller for its time; a Mr. Lobianco who wrote another "review" actually sounds quite a bit on the homophobic side, as the film has a brief bit of gay content but certainly NOT the "gay plot" he has it being. And there is certainly nothing wrong in the least with having gay content in a film to begin with. Actually well worth the time of viewing it; but out-of-print now to my knowledge. Mary Wilcox is not bad at all in the lead role; Lyle Waggoner is as wooden as a board as her devoted hubby; I saw no traces of a satanic cult in evidence, despite what a couple other viewers wrote. Definitely a necrophiliac cult, but satanism is not mentioned. The film's topic would be unusual in a film even today, let alone 1972 when the film originally played theaters. Actually quite surprising none of the multiple DVD companies have ever released this on home video, nor to my knowledge do they have an plans to do so. Considering some of the utter rubbish put out on the medium, it would be nice if one of them would make this available in a widescreen transfer for home libraries.