Sweet Kill

Plot

Eddie Collins finds that he is unable to perform sexually with women because of 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.

Production

Curtis Hanson got to know Roger Corman while doing re-writes on The Dunwich Horror (1970). When that film was finished, Hanson told Corman he wanted to direct a film he had written and Corman said he would be interested in a motorcycle movie, a women in prison movie or a nurses movie. Hanson was unenthusiastic, so Corman then said he might also be interested in a modern horror film.

Hanson wrote the script originally with the killer as a female. Corman liked it but asked that the killer be made a male.

The producer was Corman's former assistant. The apartment where Tab Hunter's character lived in Venice was owned by Hanson's grandmother.

Re-Release

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. Hanson later described the experience as a "very unhappy" one.