Sweet Kill is a 1973

1973 in film

The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....

 B-movie

B-movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

 written and directed by future Academy Award winner Curtis Hanson

Curtis Hanson

Curtis Lee Hanson is an American film director, film producer and screenwriter. His directing work includes The Hand That Rocks the Cradle , L.A...

. The film was Hanson's directorial debut and was produced by Roger Corman

Roger Corman

Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...

. It starred 1950s hearthrob Tab Hunter

Tab Hunter

Tab Hunter is an American actor, singer, former teen idol and author who has starred in over forty major films.-Background:...

 and was the last film of actress Isabel Jewell

Isabel Jewell

Isabel Jewell was an American actress most active in the 1930s and early 1940s.-Early life and career:...

.

Plot

Eddie Collins finds that he is unable to perform sexually

Erectile dysfunction

Erectile dysfunction is sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis during sexual performance....

 with women because of some earlier repressed memories of his mother. After accidentally killing a woman while trying to sleep with her, he finds that he is able to get aroused by the dead body

Necrophilia

Necrophilia, also called thanatophilia or necrolagnia, is the sexual attraction to corpses,It is classified as a paraphilia by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. The word is artificially derived from the ancient Greek words: νεκρός and φιλία...

. This leads him into a chain of luring women into bed in order to kill them for sexual gratification.

Re-Release

The film did not do well initially at the box office, so Corman had Hanson film two additional sex scenes to try to increase its appeal and the film was re-released as A Kiss from Eddie and The Arousers.

Main cast

Actor	Role
Tab Hunter Tab Hunter Tab Hunter is an American actor, singer, former teen idol and author who has starred in over forty major films.-Background:...	Eddie Collins
Cherie Latimer	Lauren
Roberta Collins Roberta Collins Roberta Collins was a film and television actress who was known for her attractive physique, blonde, curly hair, and Marilyn Monroe appearance...	Calli
Isabel Jewell Isabel Jewell Isabel Jewell was an American actress most active in the 1930s and early 1940s.-Early life and career:...	Mrs. Cole
John Pearce	Mr. Howard
John Aprea John Aprea John Aprea is an American actor, known for his role as "Young Sal Tessio" in The Godfather: Part II and on television as "Lucas Castigliano" on the soap opera Another World, from 1989 to 1992. As of 2006, he is currently filming a new soap opera in Southern California called, "The Heiress", which...	Richard