Necromania

Necromania (sometimes subtitled "A Tale of Weird Love") is a formerly unreleased porn film by Edward D. Wood, Jr., released in 1971. Thought lost for years, it resurfaced in edited form on Mike Vraney's Something Weird imprint in the late 1980s, then was re-released on DVD by Fleshbot Films in 2005.

The plot (based on Wood's novel The Only House) involves a couple, Danny and Shirley, who visit necromancer Madame Heles for a witchcraft solution to Danny's erectile dysfunction.

Behind the scenes

The Amazing Criswell's coffin makes an appearance in the film, the third of Wood's films in which it does. (Night of the Ghouls and Plan 9 from Outer Space are the other two.) Criswell's family was in the mortician business.

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, tells how she declined Wood's offer to do a nude scene, sitting up in a coffin, as Madame Heles.

Rediscovery

The film magazine Cult Movies (issue #36) printed a detailed article about the rediscovery of Wood's Necromania and The Only House in Town. The piece was written by Rudolph Grey, author of the Wood biography Nightmare of Ecstasy.

Translation

The word "Necromania" occurs as such in the following languages: English, French, Dutch.