Terror and Sex. Best EROTIC HORRORS
Sex and horror go hand in hand perfectly, providing viewers with a double strong experience. Some of the best horror movies are the ones that are suspenseful, not only terrifying, but also erotic. Here are 6 of the most interesting erotic horror movies.
Cat People (1982)
Paul Schrader’s film is a remake of the great 1942 horror film and psychological thriller of the same name, directed by Jacques Tourner. In the original, Simone Simon plays the Serbian Irena Dubrovna, living in New York, who is convinced that she comes from the cat people, and any sexual contact with a man will turn her into a wild cat. Tourner’s film is lined with eroticism, a sensual play of lights and shadows, but it was only in the remake from the 1980s that these sexual undertones could fully resound. Schrader’s Cat People also tells the story of a certain Irena (Nastassja Kinski), but the film tells a slightly different story than the original. However, there are plenty of sensual scenes and sex, and the whole film is full of sensual eroticism in a typical 80s style. As Schrader himself said, there is “more skin than blood” in the film.
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Dracula (1992)
Where there are vampires, there must be sex. In European culture, these blood-drinking killers are associated with sexual energy. It began with the first vampire stories – Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu about a lesbian vampire and The Vampire by John William Polidori – crowned with the first great vampire work, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In times when sex was taboo, literary vampires symbolized human sexuality, and the very act of dipping teeth into flesh could be interpreted as a metaphor for penetration. Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation is deeply erotic and laced with sexual imagery, and the vampiric sucking of the victim’s blood flows seamlessly into the sexual act.
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Anne Rice, the author of the literary series on the basis of which the famous film with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise was created, was active for the rights of LGBTQ+ people until her death in December 2021. Also in her debut novel Interview with the Vampire from 1976, filmed by Neil Jordan in 1994, there is no shortage of homoerotic themes. The main characters of the novel and the film are two vampires – Lestat de Lioncourt (Cruise) and Louise de Pointe du Lac (Pitt). The story is told from the point of view of Louise, who tells a journalist about his life – how Lestat turned him into a vampire and gave him immortality, but also the urge to kill, and how together they saved him from death by turning him into a vampire and adopting little Claudia (Kirsten Dunst). In a 2012 interview, Anne Rice called Lestat and Louise “the first same-sex vampire parents.” It’s not just parenting or being together forever that Interview with the Vampire is about, it’s also about sex. The entire movie, being a vampire movie, is erotic, and Lestat and Louise also engage in sexual relationships with women.
Thirst (2009)
Thirst is one of the best Asian vampire movies. Here, Park Chan-wook adapted Teresa Raquin, a novel by Emil Zola written in 1867, adapted to the screen many times in the history of cinema. Song Kang-ho, known from Parasite, plays a Catholic priest in this South Korean erotic horror film who, as a result of a medical experiment (which aimed to discover a vaccine for a deadly virus), turns into a vampire. A pious priest discovers completely unknown desires in himself – not only bloodlust, but also sexual fulfillment. He falls in love with the wife of his childhood friend (Kim Ok-bin) and has to stop himself from drinking her blood.
The Love Witch (2016)
Witches, sexual fantasies and erotic female power? There is everything in Anna Biller’s film. Elaine (Samantha Robinson) is a beautiful young witch who comes to a new town in search of carnal love after the death of her husband. Every man she meets on her way becomes obsessed with her. When the lovers get too involved, Elaine sends them to the afterlife. The Love Witch is a visually beautiful erotic horror, filled with colors in the style of old Technicolor films.
X (2022)
X is the best horror film by Ti West, who specializes in horror cinema. West perfectly combines different aesthetics in X – B-class cinema with arthouse cinema, classic slasher with erotic, and maybe even a porn film. His heroes are a team of filmmakers with ambitions to make the best adult film. Aspiring pornstar Maxine (Mia Goth) sets out with her boyfriend, producer Wayne (Martin Henderson), actor duo Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow) and Jackson (Scott Mescudi), as well as director RJ (Owen Campbell) and his girlfriend Lorraine (Jenna Ortega) to a remote farm to shoot a movie. They stay in a cottage next to the house on a farm owned by a graying old man and his infirm wife. Over time, the couple becomes more and more interested in the film crew, brimming with sex and youth.
Michalina Peruga