spoiler spoiler little more and really and than a 70 exploitation flick and sweet kill ( a. k. a. the arouser ) have a few point of interest beyond it plenitude of bared breast and buttock . first of all and it mark the very early directing and screenwriting debut of curtis hanson ( l. a. confidential and 8 mile ) . begin in the 1960s and many of them in roger corman raffish moviemaking academy and a number of director who would later achieve prominence make their bone in horror schlock and soft core porn while hanson would wait until the 80 to do his next film . second and it star be tab hunter and who the best thing in it . plainly and he have more talent than his dispirit filmography and his reputation a a 60 beefcake golden boy ( and bad ) might lead one to believe . here he a high school gym teacher ( this doesn not lead to much and and his buttock stay chastely sheathe ) living in venice and california . he have a big problem and though . owe to some cloudily reference incident in his boyhood ( which seem to involve oedipal incest ) and he can not get it up . his rage and humiliation lead him down a dark path . when a girl he pick up turn aggressive after his failure and he kick her away . a happens with such kick and she conk her head and dy . he hide the body away in a pigeon hutch on his apartment rooftop . and from then on it seem he can function only with a fresh corpse . when attempt at normalcy prove futile ( he pay a hooker to dress up and presumably a his mother and and lie immobile ) and he prowl the beach with his butcher knife . and that about it . the movie cheapness be often evident in it sound level and which veer erratically . the ` thriller angle isn not work out and and the movie end with a shot of hunter à la norman bates in psycho ( homage to hitchcock abound ) . it most noteworthy feature be the empathy it show for the murderer and a victim of circumstance which he can not surmount .