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I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The acting in this movie is really good.

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?

Frigid, remote and repressed young Lindsay Finch (a fine performance by gorgeous blonde Mary Wilcox of "Beast of the Yellow Night") has a morbid fascination with the recently deceased: she frequently attends funerals of complete strangers and finds herself drawn to a depraved cult of corpse-loving freaks led by sinister undertaker Fred McSweeney (a pleasingly creepy portrayal by Timothy Scott). Lindsay attempts a normal romantic relationship with nice guy Alex Martin (a likable turn by "The Carol Burnett Show" regular Lyle Waggoner), but alas things don't work out. Writer/director Jacques Lacerte relates the gloomy story at a stately pace, does a sound job of creating a suitably eerie and downbeat tone, and treats the unsavory subject matter with commendable taste and restraint. Wilcox shines in the lead role; she manages to make Lindsay a movingly troubled and sympathetic character despite her ghoulish sexual interest with the dead. Wilcox receives excellent support from Waggoner, Scott, Christopher Stone as amorously aggressive stud Wade Farrow, and William Quinn as ill-fated male hustler Billy Jo (who in the film's single most gruesome and unnerving scene winds up being embalmed alive by Fred!). David Aaron's bright, pretty cinematography gives the picture an attractive sunny look. Phil Moody's neatly varied score alternates between spooky'n'shuddery chillshow stuff and more bouncy and upbeat music. The hauntingly melancholy titular theme song sung by Kit Fuller is quite memorable. But what really makes this film so surprisingly poignant and effective is the fact that at its core is a very sad and tragic doomed love story. An interesting and refreshingly different kind of fright feature.

Lindsay, a pretty blonde in black complete with veil sits in one of the back rows for a funeral service. She remains after all others have left, and goes up to caress and kiss the dead man, though without quite making contact. The opening credits appear over sepia-tinted scenes of a young blonde girl playing with her loving father.Lindsay has a party, and a blonde male friend of hers follows her upstairs, but she fights him off. She continues visiting funeral parlors. At one, she bumps into the deceased's brother, an art gallery owner, and they take a mutual liking to each other. He reminds her a little of her father, and innocent sepia-tinted scenes of her with her father are interspersed throughout the film.Another man cruises by a gay film theater, and picks up a young hustler. He takes him back to his office, saying it's a veterinarian's office, but after he straps the young man down, it's clearly an embalming room.Lindsay is approached by the cruiser at one of the funerals, and he tells her about necrophilia. She tries to throw herself more deeply into her relationships with her blonde friend and the gallery owner, but she can't handle much more than an arm around the waist or a quick kiss.She tries joining a group of necrophiliacs at the funeral parlor, but the group activity scares her off. The group does dress in black robes, and use red candles, but they don't seem to be devil worshipers as some others have said.Her relationship with the gallery owner deepens, but she still can't handle a physical relationship. She also has a couple other secrets no one except her maid knows.The movie moves fairly slowly, but I found it pretty involving. It is quite sad. I was surprised to see H.B. Halicki (Gone in 60 Seconds, The Junkman) was one of the associate producers! There's also a good musical score. Over the opening credits, the theme song "Love Me Deadly" is sung, and the musical theme is repeated instrumental in different variations throughout.

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.