Using psychoanalytic constructs of necrophilia and disavowal, the author revisits Stanley Kubrick's (1999) film Eyes Wide Shut from a cultural perspective. Disavowal, the failure to fully grasp the meaning of what is perceived, may help explain why viewers missed disturbing necrophilia meanings in this film. Various faces of necrophilia (as orientations against life, neurotic fantasies, and true perversions) are discussed. The author speculates that participants in a contemporary culture may also use disavowal vis-à-vis values against life that some current institutions endorse. Kubrick's eye-opening message could be that people do not have their eyes wide open to see the violence embedded in the necrophilous model that some institutions hold, values that, in a marketing society, people may consume without sufficient awareness or questioning.