Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.
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- TriviaDisappointed by the box-office generated under its original release title "Sweet Kill", Roger Corman had Curtis Hanson shoot additional sex scenes over a period of two days, to spice-up the film, and retitled it and re-released it as The Arousers. It didn't help the film's box-office much.
- GoofsWhen the cop seizes the marijuana he says it was sitting on the tub and asserts that finding it constituted an illegal search and seizure. At the time the film was released the law recognized a plain view exception to search and seizure protection and the search and seizure were legal.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Tab Hunter Confidential (2015)
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Disappointing, Yet Still Very Unnerving
Current A-list director Curtis Hanson's first 1970 film portrayal of a sexually-deviant gym teacher and serial killer features an incredibly creepy performance by Tab Hunter which is so good, it raises the quality of the whole movie. Unfortunately, the production values are rather inferior: the film has the flat lighting of a TV-movie, mixed sound quality, an underdeveloped script, and a few embarrassingly awkward scenes - one with Hunter giving a male student advice about girls that reminded me of a cheap educational filmstrip, and another with police finding marijuana in a character's bathtub. With all of the realistic serial killer films which have come out since this film, it probably had greater originality when first released, as an early attempt to portray a serial killer's actions squarely in the middle of mundane everyday reality. However, part of the creepy quality here is that Hunter portrays a character who seems exceedingly normal on the outside but is obviously incredibly disturbed. The whole sexual impotence aspect of his compulsions thankfully remains low-key, as simply slipping this guy some Viagra would probably not solve his difficulties.
All in all, definitely not a bad time-filler or debut for Hanson; there are a couple of memorable shock scenes. However, for a much more substantial treatment of similar subject matter, I suggest Robert Altman's very obscure 1964 film "Nightmare in Chicago."
All in all, definitely not a bad time-filler or debut for Hanson; there are a couple of memorable shock scenes. However, for a much more substantial treatment of similar subject matter, I suggest Robert Altman's very obscure 1964 film "Nightmare in Chicago."
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- Jul 31, 2005
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- A Kiss from Eddie
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- Eastwind Street, Venice, California, USA(Eddie's house})
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- $110,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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