I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses is a 1978 Canadian psychological horror film directed by Murray Markowitz. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, later dropped without a successful prosecution.
A Canadian courtroom drama about a real murder. Its presence on the list is inexplicable.
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A Canadian courtroom drama about a real murder, and its presence on the DPP list is truly inexplicable.
It is based on the 1974 killing of Christine Demeter in Toronto, in which her husband was convicted of arranging her death. The film follows the trial and reconstructs the marriage in flashback.
It has one violent sequence. Otherwise it is a legal procedural with a domestic-abuse subject, made for television sensibilities, and it would pass a 15 today without argument.
The most likely explanation is the title on a video shelf: it sounds like something else entirely, which appears to have been enough in 1983.
Listed and dropped. Also released as Drop Dead Dearest.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · listed, then dropped
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The same film, sold as a different film in each territory. Click any of them.
Where to watch
Australia
Germany
Finland
UK
USA
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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