1. Necrophilia - Love Me Deadly (1973)
Lindsay Finch, a beautiful blonde haired woman who could have any (living) man she wants, has an unfortunate obsession with the dead. She dresses up in black to attend funerals and wakes, and she takes the liberty of having a good snog with the corpses when nobody is looking. A man named Fred recognises Lindsay from all the funerals she goes too and reckons they are twin necrophiliac souls. Fred's vein of necrophilia runs even deeper than Lindsay's. He belongs to a Satan worshipping necro nookie cult which stages get togethers with fresh corpses in the local mortuary. As if this didn't sound deranged enough, Fred takes the liberty of embalming anyone living that he fancies to turn them into necrophiliac sex toys! Meanwhile at the coven, Lindsay meets a man called Alex. They marry but she is unable to consummate the marriage and a sinister twist is in the offing... An early 70s precursor to late, more extreme films about necrophilia - namely Buio Omega, NEKRomantik and Lucker - the film is interesting as a portrait of the psychology of a necrophiliac. It is not a particularly disturbing movie despite its dark subject matter (unlike the other three films mentioned above) and it has a tendency to get bogged down with soap opera-esque melodrama. However it is highly watchable and daring in the themes it portrays - including a homosexual subplot which would have been bold for its time. Still able to fascinate a 2013 audience even though it is a 70s exploiter, I find this kind of obscure, forbidden fare much more interesting than most of the modern dreck which passes as cinema entertainment these days.