Sweet Kill

Sweet Kill
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Curtis Hanson
Produced by	Tamara Asseyev
Written by	Curtis Hanson
Starring	Tab Hunter John Aprea
Music by	Charles Bernstein
Cinematography	Daniel Lacambre
Production company	Curtis Lee Hanson Tamaroc Productions
Distributed by	New World Pictures
Release date	January 1973 (USA)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$110,000

Sweet Kill (a.k.a. A Kiss from Eddie a.k.a. The Arousers) is a 1973 B-movie written and directed by future Academy Award winner Curtis Hanson. The film was Hanson's directorial debut and was produced by Roger Corman. It starred 1950s heartthrob Tab Hunter and was the last film of actress Isabel Jewell.

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.

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.

The film did not do well initially at the box office, so 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.