Sweet Kill (also known as A Kiss from Eddie and The Arousers) is a 1973 B-movie written and directed by future Academy Award winner Curtis Hanson.

[4][5] Eddie Collins finds that he is unable to perform sexually with women because of repressed memories of his mother.

This leads him into a chain of luring women into bed in order to kill them for sexual gratification.

Corman had a track record of giving opportunities to first time directors and was setting up his own distribution company, New World Pictures.

A couple of weeks before filming started Hanson says Corman "reneged on the deal and said he would only put up one-third of the money.

To show how foolhardy I was, I went to my parents and persuaded them to put a mortgage on their home in order to finance this film.

The Los Angeles Times said it was "made with a sensitivity and intelligence unusual for the normally lurid psycho genre.