Dear Dead Delilah is a 1972 American slasher film written and directed by John Farris and starring Agnes Moorehead, Will Geer, Michael Ansara, Dennis Patrick, Anne Meacham, and Robert Gentry.

[3] Star Agnes Moorehead was in ill health from advanced uterine cancer during production, so her character was written to be in a wheelchair as part of the story.

She visits a small college town nearby, where she observes a touch football game occurring in a local park.

Meanwhile, Delilah meets with Roy Jurroe, her attorney, who warns her against enforcing a financial plan with her brothers Alonzo and Morgan, and sister, Grace.

Several days later, Richard visits with his mistress, the alcoholic Grace, remarking his frustration over Delilah's control of the family fortune.

During dinner, Delilah announces that she has mere months left to live, and that she has willed South Hall to the state of Tennessee.

She also reveals that she located a packet of old money buried on the property amounting to $600,000; it had been left there by her father, Bailey Charles, who acquired it after covertly selling his expensive racehorses, setting his barn on fire, and collecting the insurance claim.

The next morning, Morgan meets with Delilah and asks for $40,000 to repay embezzlement debts to avoid prison time.

Several days later, Alonzo and Luddy celebrate their receiving the money which will allow them to open a home for unwanted children, something they both had dreamed of doing.

TV Guide dismissed it as "Really, really lame";[4] and Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings noted, "this one is for axe murder completists only.