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Love Me Deadly
Mar. 20th, 2014 09:29 pmWork has been pretty busy of late, so I get home, work out, and flop on the couch. Earlier this week, I watched one of my latest Netflix movies, "Love Me Deadly", a 1972 horror flick about a young woman's fascination with necrophilia. Yeah, it kind of goes downhill storywise, but there are enough campy things in it to have kept me entertained.
A young (presumably wealthy) woman named Lindsay encounters a necrophiliac group after she's been caught attending too many funerals by a funeral director. She pursues her desires with dead bodies, while holding boyfriends and later her husband at arm's length from sex. The funeral director provides the corpses for the group by killing unsuspecting male hustlers and later one of Lindsay's boyfriends. The unsettling aspects of the movie are broken up by weird little romantic montages and the worst 1970's ballad "Love Me Deadly" I've ever heard. The actress who played Lindsay gave such a stiff performance (pun intended) that you realize she got the part based on her looks.
The movie stars a young Christopher Stone and Lyle Waggonner as Lindsay's love interests. Both show some nice shirtlessness and even a bit of bootie (you see that Lyle has tan lines). Like a lot of the movies of the early 1970's, there was even a bit of full frontal male nudity, in the case of a furry male prostitute who falls victim to the funeral director's advances and eventual use by the group.
Despite a bit of male hotness, the movie itself is a stinker. It's almost custom-designed for heckling. I wish it came with commentary, I'd love to hear the director try to explain some of the bizarre scenes. One of the things that made me literally laugh out loud was the trailer in the "Extras" section. At the end of the preview, which describes necrophilia and shows lots of nudity and death, they felt the need to put this message:
A young (presumably wealthy) woman named Lindsay encounters a necrophiliac group after she's been caught attending too many funerals by a funeral director. She pursues her desires with dead bodies, while holding boyfriends and later her husband at arm's length from sex. The funeral director provides the corpses for the group by killing unsuspecting male hustlers and later one of Lindsay's boyfriends. The unsettling aspects of the movie are broken up by weird little romantic montages and the worst 1970's ballad "Love Me Deadly" I've ever heard. The actress who played Lindsay gave such a stiff performance (pun intended) that you realize she got the part based on her looks.
The movie stars a young Christopher Stone and Lyle Waggonner as Lindsay's love interests. Both show some nice shirtlessness and even a bit of bootie (you see that Lyle has tan lines). Like a lot of the movies of the early 1970's, there was even a bit of full frontal male nudity, in the case of a furry male prostitute who falls victim to the funeral director's advances and eventual use by the group.
Despite a bit of male hotness, the movie itself is a stinker. It's almost custom-designed for heckling. I wish it came with commentary, I'd love to hear the director try to explain some of the bizarre scenes. One of the things that made me literally laugh out loud was the trailer in the "Extras" section. At the end of the preview, which describes necrophilia and shows lots of nudity and death, they felt the need to put this message:
