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Ghost Story: Death's Head (1973)
Quick Fred, get the Flit Gun.
First off, you have to buy the idea that Janet Leigh is bored to death with Gene Nelson, who I've always thought was mega-cute with his blond hair and blue eyes. He's pretty creepy in Death's Head though, and any man who is obsessed with his bug collection to the point of letting the bugs run loose in the house, and even showing up in the bedroom, would be a guy who would turn me off, no matter what he looked like. Also, I would have been constantly concerned that I'd bake a beetle or two into a casserole or that an arachnid would show up in my lingerie drawer. Leave this guy for Rory Calhoun? Definitely not. I would have thought his bug-like eyes would have creeped out Janet Leigh, but apparently not. Rory does loom over everyone else though, and at 6 foot 4 (I looked it up.) one can see why. At any rate, Janet Leigh is a neglected, sex-starved wife whose husband would rather fondle his insect buddies than fondle her. No wonder she's looking for some extra-curricular entertainment and thinks flitting about with Calhoun would be fun. Leigh has already seen that she if she shows up in Nelson's study/bug bungalow. bug museum in the middle of the night in a sexy nightgown, she can distract him to the point of making him wiling to do the deed with her, so why murder him? Instead, she interrupts the barely begun foreplay to fix him a cup of coffee...yucchy instant coffee, no less. He's willing to drink this cheap brew, probably so they can get on to the main event, but alas Leigh has put enough poison in the coffee that he immediately drops really and sincerely dead. She's finally free to pursue Calhoun...except that he's not interested. To add to her unhappiness, Nelson's prize death's head moth now is sporting Nelson's head instead of its usual skull. Personally, I would have gotten Bug Dude into therapy to see if the marriage could be salvaged. I think building a nice bungalow, with permanently closed windows and a well-sealed door, on the property to house hubby's bug collection would have been a better alternative to murder.