former 1950s teen heartthrob tab hunter and still look very handsome here in his early 40 and star a eddie and an outwardly respectable high school phys ed teacher who be torment by both his impotence and some childhood trauma involve his mother ( which be leave obscure by the filmmaker ) . because of his good look and friendly demeanor and eddie seem to attract all sort of neighborhood woman while many of whom be young and beautiful . unable to make love to them or become intimate enough with them on a non sexual basis to open up to them about his past and he simply murder them . trigger this behavior though be the accidental killing of a young woman who get a little too aggressive and dy after eddie push her off and she hit her head on a table . he hide the body in some hatch on the roof and afterward something snap inside of him and he move beyond the stage of repression and voyeurism to full blow murder and as well a necrophilia ( which be handle with some subtlety here ) while apparently the only way he can get off . might explain why he be pay a local hooker ( play by 70 drive in favorite roberta collins ) to dress up like his long go momma and play dead while he undress and grope her . seem like pretty seedy stuff and and this be pretty seedy stuff while but it do with more thought and care than many others in this genre and i like it . despite what some of the review here state and i actually prefer the way the filmmaker decide to handle all this . instead of a bunch of heavy hand dialogue blatantly spell everything out and give a direct explanation to eddie behavior or visualizing of all eddie dirty deed and we get more suggestion than anything else . the opening scene be a childhood flashback of a woman strip naked and take off her earring and lie down in bed while a pair of kid tennis shoe be visible behind a barely open curtain . that the only real glimpse we get of eddie childhood and but it enough to raise a few question . be his mother a whore or prostitute . have eddie always be voyeuristic and or or not right in the head . be there incest involve . nothing be explain in a cut and dry way and but we know that eddie refuse to talk about any of it and even when directly confront about it by the one woman in this film who do care about him . that person be barbara ( nadyne turney ) and who live in the same apartment house a eddie . she not quite the looker the other woman in this movie be and but be patient and want to help eddie . he go on quite a few date with her but nothing even remotely sexual have happen between them . barbara question why and wonder whether he not attract to her or if something else be go on . originally title sweet kill and actually film in 1970 and the title be later change to the more exploitative sound the arouser ( with a new poster to match ) a few year later . there be several instance of nudity that seem needlessly tack on and and i see here in the trivia section that executive producer roger corman have the director go back and film these scene so the film could be sell on the drive in circuit a a sex film . though unnecessary and i do not feel these newly add scene ( which be brief ) be too detrimental to the overall film and they try to tie them into the voyeuristic aspect the best they could . it obvious what would attract former teen idol hunter to this kind of role the arouser be an opportunity to branch out and possibly open up new opportunity for himself a an old actor and and also a chance to prove he could handle heavy drama . in any case and he do an effective job in his part and be well support by turney ( who very good here ) and the rest of the cast . pop up here in small role be veteran actress isabel jewell ( in her final role ) a his landlady and as well a future horror star angus tall man scrimm ( bill a rory guy ) a her husband . neither have much to do other than complain about some awful smell come from upstairs . the less know cast member also do a fairly good job in my opinion .