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Necrophilia in Media, Part 1: Love Me Deadly (1972)

A grieving mechanism, a trauma response

Necrophilia is quite a niche and uncomfortable topic - one that is rarely explored in media in a serious manner. This series aims to explore the different ways select media have portrayed necrophilia, including the reasons why one would resort to such an extreme hobby.

'Love Me Deadly' is a film from 1972 about a woman, Lindsay Finch, dealing with necrophilic urges. Interestingly, the poster for this movie really plays up the shock value of necrophilia, making the film appear shocking and erotic. It contains quotes like "Daddy is a Naked Corpse on a Slab" and "Lindsay is 18. She visits Daddy every Night."

But the film itself is quite a complex portrayal of necrophilia as a trauma response to cope with immense grief. It deals with the main character mourning the untimely death of her father when she was young.

The entire movie is interwoven with flashbacks of her as a child with her father, often mirroring scenes in present time.

When she's upset, she cradles a bear that her father gave her, and she remembers how her father would comfort her.

Lindsay struggles with forming relationships with living men - she freezes up whenever they try to touch her. Instead, she is drawn to funerals, to the cold corpses that lie there. She has a connection at the funeral home who gives her access to corpses. After the funerals, she sneaks away to kiss and fondle these corpses.

Her extreme desires lead her to come in contact with a murderous, necrophiliac cult. The perform necrophilic rituals, and encourage her to join them.

Unaware of the nature in which they acquire bodies, she tries to attend a ritual, but is horrified by what she sees, and flees.

Trying desperately to suppress her urges after the horrific ritual, she forms a relationship with a man who has a startling resemblance to her dead father - many times she even pictures her father in his place.

He tries to initiate sex with her, but she continues to push him away. When he lies asleep, she feels close to him, able to touch and hold him. But, as soon as he wakes up and tries to touch her, she freezes up.

Despite her 'difficulties', as she describes them, she marries him and desperately tries to get over her intimacy issues.

Her husband becomes increasingly worried about her behaviour and secretive nature, which leads him to ask a maid in the house about Lindsay. The maid reveals that today is Lindsay's dead father's birthday, and on this day, Lindsay travels to the cemetery to visit her father.

Her husband goes to the cemetery to find Lindsay dressed as a child, playing around her father's grave and talking to him in a childish voice. When she realizes her husband is there, she storms off, horrified that he has seen this side of her.

Filled with shame, she retreats to the cold, comforting embrace of the dead, finally giving in to the cult's urgings. She sneaks out one night to perform a ritual with them.

As Lindsay ceremoniously climbs onto the corpse, her husband enters the room to find her, having secretly followed her there.

In the ensuing panic, he is killed by a cult member, and Lindsay breaks down. His corpse is gently laid out on a bed, and she imagines her father's corpse in his place, laid out like he was during his wake, and she tenderly holds him as she falls asleep. This is where the film ends.

This film explains Lindsay's necrophilic urges as a side effect of immense grief. As the tag line from the poster said: "Daddy is a naked corpse on a slab" - she finds comfort in the embrace of the dead because they remind her of her father. Even when she tries to exist among the living, she can't help but be drawn to those who resemble him.

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1970s movies watched on January 2023:

♡ Axe/Lisa, Lisa (1974, dir. Frederick R. Friedel)

♡ Messiah of Evil (1973, dir. Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz)

♡ Don't Be Afraid of The Dark (1973, dir. John Newland)

♡ Play As It Lays (1972, dir. Frank Perry)

♡ La dama rossa uccide sette volte (1972, dir. Emilio Miraglia)

♡ Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972, dir. Luis Buñuel)

♡ I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale (1973, dir. Sergio Martino)

♡ Communion/Alice, Sweet Alice (1976, dir. Alfred Sole)

♡ Sisters (1972, Brian de Palma)

♡ The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972, dir. Waris Hussein)

♡ The Oval Portrait (adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's short story) (1973, dir. Rogelio A. González Jr.)

♡ Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973, dir. Denis Sanders)

♡ The Pyx (1973, dir. Harvey Hart)

♡ Love Me Deadly (1973, dir. Jacques Lacerte)

♡ Necromancy (1972, dir. Bert I. Gordon)

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