Sweet Kill
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| Directed by | Curtis Hanson |
| Produced by | Tamara Asseyev |
| Written by | Curtis Hanson |
| Starring | Tab Hunter John Aprea |
| Music by | Charles Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Daniel Lacambre |
| Studio | Curtis Lee Hanson Tamaroc Productions |
| Distributed by | New World Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January, 1973 (USA) |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
Sweet Kill (aka A Kiss from Eddie aka The Arousers) is a 1973 B-movie written and directed by future Academy Award winner Curtis Hanson. The film was Hanson's directorial debut and was produced by Roger Corman. It starred 1950s hearthrob Tab Hunter and was the last film of actress Isabel Jewell.[1]
Plot
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Eddie Collins finds that he is unable to perform sexually 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. This leads him into a chain of luring women into bed in order to kill them for sexual gratification.
Main cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Tab Hunter | Eddie Collins |
| Cherie Latimer | Lauren |
| Roberta Collins | Calli |
| Isabel Jewell | Mrs. Cole |
| John Pearce | Mr. Howard |
| John Aprea | Richard |
Production
Curtis Hanson got to know Roger Corman while doing re-writes on The Dunwich Horror (1970). He wrote the script originally with the killer as a female. Corman liked it but asked that the killer be made a male.[2]
The producer was Corman's former assistant.[3]
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.[4]
Hanson later described the experience as a "very unhappy" one.[2]
References
- ^ Isabel Jewell - IMDb
- ^ a b Christopher T Koetting, Mind Warp!: The Fantastic True Story of Roger Corman's New World Pictures, Hemlock Books. 2009 p 36
- ^ Ed. J. Philip di Franco, The Movie World of Roger Corman, Chelsea House Publishers, 1979 p 172
- ^ Sweet Kill (1973) - Trivia - IMDb
External links
- Sweet Kill at the Internet Movie Database
- Sweet Kill at AllRovi
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