'Necromania': A Tale of Weird Love! (1971) watch online HD

After 15 years of detective work, Rudolph Grey and Alexander W. Kogan Jr., Edward D. Wood Jr. enthusiasts, found the film in a warehouse in Los Angeles.

Movie was filmed over two or three days with a budget of no more than $7,000 and the only copies went missing soon after it was made

Madame Heles was to have been played by longtime Edward D. Wood Jr. collaborator Maila Nurmi (aka Maila Nurmi), who took one look at the script and withdrew herself from the production citing concerns of "professional suicide".

Ed Wood produced, wrote, and directed the film under the pseudonym "Don Miller".

The title seems to imply necrophilia, but the content implies an obsession with Death.

The film was based on the novel "The Only House" (1970), also written by Wood. Reviewer Rob Craig observes that certain elements of the original story were "slavishly" adapted, while others were altered or removed in their entirety.For example, in the novel the rituals of sex magic are depicted in detail, and the Carpenters are not lovers posing as a married couple. They are in fact married.

According to Charles Anderson, a Wood collaborator, the director himself played a role in the film. Anderson recalled this role to be a wizard or an evil doctor. However, no such role appears in the finished film. Reviewer Craig suspects it was included in a deleted scene.

The film was an early entry to the new subgenre of hardcore pornographic film. The pioneers of the subgenre were films such as "Mona the Virgin Nymph" (1970) by Howard Ziehm and "Sex USA" (1970) by Gerard Damiano. The subgenre went on to enter the mainstream with Deep Throat (1972). The idea of graphic sex as an integral part of an adult-oriented narrative was further explored in "Last Tango in Paris" (1972) by Bernardo Bertolucci, "Sodom and Gomorrah: The Last Seven Days" (1974) by Artie Mitchell, and The "Opening of Misty Beethoven" (1976) by Radley Metzger.

Danny Carpenter says that "Any minute, I expect Bela Lugosi as Dracula" in reference to the creepiness of the house featured. Wood probably included the reference to Bela Lugosi as a tribute to an old friend.

The spying eyes, seen through a painting are part of a trope derived from films featuring haunted houses.

A coffin owned by The Amazing Criswell is seen in the film, the second of Wood's films (after "Night of the Ghouls") in which such a coffin appears. Criswell's family was in the mortician business. The coffin used in Necromania, however, looks antique. According to cinematographer Ted Gorley, this was the result of a misunderstanding. Criswell had meant to donate his own coffin, but the crew of the film borrowed the wrong coffin. The one used in the film was a relic dating to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865).

In Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (p. 135), Maila Nurmi, who played Vampira on TV and in "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959), tells how she declined Wood's request for her to do a nude scene sitting up in a coffin in the role of Madame Heles.

The group sex sessions seen through the prism can be seen as a depiction of the then-ongoing sexual revolution.

The front door is decorated with the image of a trident. Rob Craig suggests that it can also be seen as the pitchfork of a devil.