Love Me Deadly (1973)

A coven of devil-worshipping necrophiliacs moves to Los Angeles and sets up their base of operations out of a funeral home.

Director:

Jacques Lacerte

Writers:

Roger Wall (story), Robert Cleere (story),

Stars:

Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Lyle Waggoner, Christopher Stone

Cast

Credited cast:
Mary Charlotte Wilcox	...	Lindsay Finch (as Mary Wilcox)
Lyle Waggoner	...	Alex Martin
Christopher Stone	...	Wade Farrow
Timothy Scott	...	Fred McSweeney
Michael Pardue	...	Lindsay's Father
Dassa Cates	...	House Keeper
Terri Anne Duvalis	...	Lindsay as a Child
Louis Joeffred	...	McSweeney's Colleague
Bruce Adams	...	McSweeney's Colleague
Barbara Fisher	...	Prostitute
Edith Sills	...	Alex's Mother
Irving Rosen	...	Dinner Guest
H.B. Halicki	...	Race Driver (as Toby Halicki)
I. William Quinn	...	Billy-Jo
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Jacobs	...	Love Slave

Storyline

A coven of devil-worshipping necrophiliacs moves to Los Angeles and sets up their base of operations out of a funeral home.

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Plot Keywords:

funeral | music score features piano | secret | male prostitute | murder | 

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Taglines:

The Most Shocking Occult Ordeal Ever Permitted on the Screen!

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

January 1973 (USA)

Also Known As:

Secrets of the Death Room

Filming Locations:

Melrose, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$42,500 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

United Talent Productions Ltd.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Many of the guests at the party were played by crew members. Buck Edwards, who plays the cult member with a shaved head, is briefly visible as a guest in the background.

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Connections

Edited into Mad Ron's Prevues from Hell (1987)

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Soundtracks

"Love Me Deadly"
Sung by Kit Fuller

User Reviews

An obscure necro-horror flick with too much soap opera

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.