Love Me Deadly

Love Me Deadly is a 1973 film starring Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Lyle Waggoner, and Christopher Stone. The screenplay concerns a coven of devilworshipping necrophiliacs that moves to Los Angeles and sets up their base of operations out of a funeral home.

Her friend Wade Farrow Christopher Stone is romantically interested in her, but she rejects his affections. Meanwhile, mortician Fred McSweeney Timothy Scott notices Lindsays attendance at the wakes and, although she wont admit to her secret passion, he recognizes her as a kindred spirit. McSweeney has a Satanic coven that meets after hours in the mortuary for necrophilic orgies with the latest cadavers. At one point, McSweeney picks up a male hustler and brings him to the mortuary where McSweeney straps him down and embalms him alive by pumping him full of formaldehyde. McSweeney eventually coaxes Lindsay to join his group. When Wade follows her to the funeral home, he stumbles across one of the group preparing a body for the coming orgy, and is killed and becomes a special guest for the group himself.At one of the wakes, Lindsay meets and finds herself drawn to the deceaseds brother, art gallery owner Alex Martin Lyle Waggoner. An intense romance begins, Lindsays first real relationship. The two get married, but Lindsay cant bring herself to consummate the marriage, and Alex is confused and frustrated by his new wifes inability to return his affections. Alex gets suspicious and reads a registered letter to Lindsay that comes from McSweeneys funeral parlor, leading to a disturbing twist ending. ........

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