The Sexiest Horror Films Streaming

Many academically minded sorts have written at nice size and with fascinating eloquence on the connection between intercourse and demise in horror films. We’ll minimize proper to the chase, providing up a number of the finest and most potent examples of sexuality within the horror-movie style.

However first, a disclaimer: These are horror films, spanning a long time, and, thus, do not at all times, or typically, provide up the healthiest representations of human sexuality. Whether or not it is vampire eroticism or sexy teen campers, intercourse in films is sophisticated, and never at all times sex-positive, at the same time as we’re being invited to be aroused.

A few of these films have deep and sophisticated, if typically uncomfortable, issues to say concerning the hyperlinks between intercourse and demise; others are pure titillation—films that throw in some nude our bodies and sweaty, writhing flesh with the intention to get extra butts in seats. We’re not right here to make a distinction between high-minded horniness and baser sexual impulses—if it is horny, it is into account.

Do not Look Now (1973)

Mourning the current demise of their little one, Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland take off for Venice to get away from issues—after which nearly instantly run right into a psychic who claims to keep in touch with their daughter. Tailored from a Daphne du Maurier story, and finally concerning the methods wherein grief and loss can profoundly alter a relationship for higher or for worse, the film contains one main intercourse scene involving the couple, nevertheless it shortly went down in sexy horror historical past: Not solely does it embrace an outline of oral intercourse, unheard-of for a mainstream film in 1973 and uncommon even at the moment, provided that it is a girl on the receiving finish, however the scene is each emotionally uncooked and impressively frank. A lot in order that rumors have continued within the a long time since that the scene itself was completely unsimulated. In all probability not true, regardless of the Paramount govt who claims he noticed it, however nonetheless provides you a way of the scene’s maintain on imaginations. Warren Beatty (of all folks) even fought to have the scene faraway from the movie, horrified that his then-girlfriend Christie could be concerned in such a sordid enterprise.

The place to stream: digital rental

Knife + Coronary heart (2018)

Yann Gonzalez’s slick and trendy French slasher is ready, fairly fairly, on this planet of ‘70s homosexual porn. Anne Parèze (Vanessa Paradis) runs a manufacturing firm that makes the exploitation films Knife + Coronary heart facilities on, however the collection of murders that happen on set barely draw the eye of the native police, who aren’t terribly torn up concerning the deaths of homosexual porn actors. Anne decides that her subsequent movie shall be concerning the murders themselves, unfolding a movie-within-a-movie that solely attracts the eye of the killer (and his spiked dildo). The film celebrates giallo, with loads of deep cuts for followers of traditional Italian horror, and ‘70s sleaze extra typically, however with a stunning look all its personal.

The place to scream: Shudder, AMC+, digital rental

Mulholland Drive (2001)

I believe we’re purported to name this a thriller to differentiate it from less-reputable horror films like Friday the thirteenth, however nobody evokes nightmarish disconnection and existential dread like David Lynch, and this story of the descent into insanity by an aspiring actress is as horrific as they arrive. But it surely’s not all dangerous for Naomi Watts’ Diane Selwyn—or is it Betty Elms? She finds herself in a extremely popular, very heavy relationship with Laura Harring’s Rita, climaxing (ahem) in one among mainstream cinema’s hottest same-sex love scenes this facet of Sure. It is also very almost the second when all the things vibrant and hopeful turns darkish and forbidding for our heroine, however I believe that is extra to do with the kind of film we’re in than with the horny homosexual stuff.

The place to stream: digital rental

The Starvation (1983)

There’s solely so a lot plot right here, however who wants plot when charting a classy and horny vampire love triangle amongst Catherine Denueve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon, all three at roughly their most lovely. Deneuve is vampire Miriam Blaylock, whereas Bowie performs her longtime companion John. Miriam is actually immortal, however John is fading after centuries, and determined to protect not simply his life however his youth. Enter Sarah (Sarandon) the physician whom he seeks out for assist, and who shortly turns into the newest goal of Miriam’s erotic fascination. Director Tony Scott’s film is all shiny, gauzy fashion and set design—however the chemistry (and intercourse) between Miriam and Sarah is scrumptious.

The place to stream: digital rental

Def by Temptation (1990)

Okay (Kadeem Harrison) and Joel (James Bond III, who additionally wrote and directed) have been finest buddies since childhood—however whereas Joel has turn out to be a minister, Okay has put his equally spiritual upbringing apart to maneuver to New York and turn out to be an actor. Nonetheless, it is Joel who turns into enamored of the mysterious girl that they meet throughout an evening out in NYC. She’s identified solely as Temptress (novelist Cynthia Bond), and she or he’s been seducing and murdering males in seedy NYC bars for a while, what with being a succubus and all. It is a good, fashionable, and erotic little bit of early Nineteen Nineties horror that comes with greater than its share of intercourse and nudity.

The place to stream: Tubi, Peacock, Shudder, AMC+, Prime Video

Species (1995)

There’s an alien on the free—and she or he should mate! The setup right here is very Nineteen Fifties monster film, and that is what makes it enjoyable. Scientists at SETI obtain an alien genome from house and, believing the senders to be benevolent, go proper forward and splice it with human DNA. As you do. The result’s SIl (Natasha Henstridge), a hybrid who grows to maturity in simply months, and who the scientists shortly understand is not possible to regulate. Fearing that she’ll mate with people (will she ever!) and finally wipe out our gene pool, they attempt to kill her earlier than she escapes and, as predicted, begins in search of people to fuck. It won’t be excessive artwork, however the film’s soft-core thrills impressed a number of sequels and even a few novels.

The place to stream: Tubi, Prime Video, Pluto TV, digital rental

Society (1989)

On condition that it accommodates, with out exaggeration, one of the crucial batshit intercourse scenes in horror film historical past, it might be malpractice to not embrace Brian Yuzna’s directorial debut. That being stated, there’s much more shock right here than titillation on this story of the younger scion of a rich household (Billy Warlock, finest identified for a really lengthy and Emmy-winning run on Days of Our Lives) who involves suspect that his household is concerned in some kind of murderous intercourse cult. It might be completely disappointing had been he to be confirmed mistaken, so it is not a lot of a spoiler to disclose that they’re certainly the leaders of a simply such a corporation—with a twist. All of it builds to an enormous and actually surprising orgy on the climax, albeit one that you just won’t discover terribly titillating (although I did not come right here to guage).

The place to stream: Fubo, digital rental through Fandango at Residence

Cat Folks (1982)

A free remake of 1942’s equally sensual, if far much less overt, authentic, Cat Folks stars Nastassja Kinski as Irena, who reconnects along with her brother Paul (Malcolm McDowell) in New Orleans whereas studying some previous household historical past. It seems, you see, that they arrive from an extended line of werepanthers (not as foolish because it sounds, at the least within the context of the film), and the transformation tends to occur in moments of most ardour. Intercourse transforms them, and solely killing a human can flip them again. This complicates her crush on zookeeper Oliver (John Heard), and introduces a bizarre rigidity with Paul, who informs her that their variety are sometimes incestuous. The result’s an erotic fever dream of a film, with a completely wild ending.

The place to stream: digital rental

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Not not like Tod Browning’s 1931 adaptation of Dracula, this Francis Ford Coppola take is an typically unwieldy assortment of beautiful imagery and extra forgettable moments. Like that earlier film, although, what works right here works impeccably, and stays as haunting as it’s scorching. Gary Oldman’s efficiency here’s a campy profession finest, his total motivation coming down to like (i.e. erotic obsession) for/with Winona Ryder’s Mina Harker, who he believes to be the reincarnation of his beloved spouse, Elisabeta (and why should not he, given that they are performed by the identical actress). Come for the blood ingesting, wolf-man intercourse, and passionate longing, keep for the sexy and half-naked vampire thralls who populate Dracula’s Fort and who cannot preserve their arms off of Keanu Reeves’ Jonathan Harker.

The place to stream: Paramount+, MGM+, digital rental

Knock Knock (2015)

Since we’re speaking about Keanu Reeves, we’ll simply ahead to this 2015 horny residence invasion (-ish) horror film from author/director Eli Roth (Hostel, Thanksgiving). Household man Evan (Reeves) is left residence alone when two very moist younger girls (Ana de Armas and Lorenza Izzo, who’ve been caught in a storm, you see) come to the door and shortly get flirty with the middle-aged dad. The three of them have pretty aggressive intercourse, which winds up being an comprehensible however extraordinarily dangerous resolution on poor Evan’s half. It is a sexier and barely extra satirical tackle extra severe torture thrillers like Humorous Video games, and a strong reminder that you just’re completely right to by no means reply your doorbell.

The place to stream: Pluto TV, digital rental

Stranger by the Lake (2013)

This slasher/horror film additionally echoes the erotic thrillers of the great previous days. Right here, Pierre Deladonchamps performs Franck, a daily customer to a nude seaside and the encompassing woods, each fashionable cruising spots. Franck begins a passionate relationship (that means: numerous fairly express intercourse within the woods) with Michel (Christophe Paou), who Franck later spots drowning somebody within the lake. Because the investigation into that occasion heats up, Franck finds himself struggling to surrender a superb factor, even within the face of homicide.

The place to scream: digital rental

Daughters of Darkness (1971)

Ah, sure: the erotic bisexual vampire style, which positively had a second within the Nineteen Seventies. Daughters of Darkness is healthier than most, and positively extra genuinely horny. Eschewing the hot-lesbians-for-straight-guys vibe of different films, Daughters has a feel and look that borders on arthouse, with a grand and chic fashion, in addition to a willingness to go deeper. Delphine Seyrig performs Countess Elizabeth Báthory, who occurs upon a newlywed couple honeymooning in a distant area, and instantly units about seducing the spouse away from her boring human sexual and ethical conformity.

The place to scream: Shudder, Tubi, digital rental

Interview With the Vampire (1994)

The current AMC collection adaptation is nice, and dispenses with any subtext the place Lestat and Louis (and Armand!) are involved. Subtext is manner overrated with regards to queer themes, however this 1994 adaptation walks impressively near that edge, and seeing a few big-name male stars arrange home and lift their surly vampire daughter whereas sucking one another’s blood was thrilling again within the day. As threeways go, you can have performed a helluva lot worse within the mid-Nineteen Nineties than to assemble Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Antonio Banderas. The film stays a completely entertaining, and really, very sweaty, story of housekeeping and homicide in New Orleans.

The place to scream: digital rental

Titane (2021)

Simply one other film a couple of gender-fluid erotic dancer and serial killer (Alexia/Adrien, performed by Agathe Rousselle) who fucks a automobile, will get pregnant in consequence, and is then taken in by a person (Vincent Lindon) who believes that, in Alexia (quickly to determine as Adrien), he is discovered his lengthy misplaced son. You realize. Typical Hollywood. There’s so much happening in author/director Julia Ducournau’s wild love story, and the intercourse and eroticism aren’t completely typical (until Crash-style automobile intercourse is your factor), however the film positively has an simple, and undeniably bizarre, sensuality.

The place to scream: Hulu

Hatchet II (2010)

Adam Inexperienced’s slasher collection was created as an express tribute to the trashy slashers of yore, with roles and appearances from actors higher identified for A Nightmare on Elm Avenue, Friday the thirteenth, Candyman, Halloween, and so on. Meaning not solely numerous grotesque sensible results, but in addition loads of nudity (i.e. boobs) and intercourse. The second film within the collection, which finds the primary film’s Remaining Lady Marybeth (Danielle Harris) returning to the swamp with plans to take revenge on murderous Victor Crowley (Kane Holder), goes additional than the others in its (non-male) nudity and intercourse. Attempt to beat the intercourse scene involving the corpse that will not cease thrusting for intentional tastelessness.

The place to stream: Tubi, Prime Video, Screambox

Nadja (1994)

Riffing on the traditional 1936 Dracula’s Daughter (with its extraordinarily thinly veiled lesbian subtext and its “Save the ladies of London from Dracula’s Daughter!” tagline, this movie opens with the demise of Depend Dracula by the hands of his previous nemesis, Van Helsing (Peter Fonda)—traumatizing the vampire’s daughter, Nadja (Elina Löwensohn). On a sullen quest for revenge, she seeks out the daughter of Van Helsing to have intercourse with—Nadja will make her a thrall and use her to destroy the entire household. A late instance of the horny queer woman vampire style, Nadja brings some arthouse fashion (David Lynch produces and has a cameo) to its blood, gore, and sexy homosexual vamps.

The place to scream: Prime Video

Swallowed (2022)

Ben (Cooper Koch) simply needs to pop off to Los Angeles for an thrilling new life as a homosexual porn star—however, first, his buddy Dom (who has a secret crush) has an incredible thought: They will make a fast drug run throughout the Canadian border for some seed cash, if you’ll. Truly, and unsurprisingly, it is a very dangerous thought, as the 2 are pressured to swallow condoms filled with a mysterious…one thing. Among the condoms are damaged throughout a confrontation with a bigot in a rest room truck cease, and issues go from dangerous to worse once they lastly meet the drug boss (Mark Patton) who’s concurrently ruthless, and in addition extraordinarily scorching for Ben. Oh, and did I point out that the condoms are crammed with the larvae of a bug that bites to get you excessive and or erect? Classify this one as Boner Physique Horror.

The place to stream: digital rental

Thirst (2009)

If you would like subversive, it is laborious to beat the nice South Korean director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Determination to Depart), and he is on the peak of his powers with this erotic vampire horror film. Christian priest Sang-hyun (Music Kang-ho) volunteers to be contaminated by a virus for analysis, however finds himself with an infinite starvation for blood, and in addition intercourse, in consequence. It builds to a gory climax as Sang-hyun finds himself step by step shedding his earlier morality, however within the meantime there is a passionate affair, in addition to some extra uncomfortable moments of sexual violence. Genuinely a vampire movie like no different.

The place to stream: digital rental

Possession (1981)

A horror film a couple of dangerous divorce written throughout the director’s real-life marital cut up, Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession offers with an allegory for marriage going mistaken within the type of a literal monster. As her marriage to Sam Neill’s Mark disintegrates, Isabelle Adjani’s Anna is nurturing a creature whom appears to have taken Mark’s place in her affections; the film features a memorable intercourse scene with the shapeless mass of a monster that put it on the radar of the anti-video nasty crusaders in Britain, the place it was banned. It has been not too long ago restored to its full size, and makes a compelling case for the Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill as two of the most popular actors within the recreation circa 1981.

The place to stream: Shudder

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Hardly probably the most graphically sexual horror film, An American Werewolf in London nonetheless greater than makes the minimize for the presence of, and movie-length chemistry between, David Naughton and Jenny Agutter. It would not get a lot hotter than the film’s central shower-sex scene.

The place to stream: Tubi, Prime Video, The Criterion Channel

Incorrect Flip 6: Final Resort (2014)

It was promised that this record would not be all high-minded eroticism, so we’ll finish with this pretty sleazy Incorrect Flip reboot, a part of a collection nicely previous its prime by this level. Regardless of! It is extra cannibal homicide within the woods in a venerable slasher custom, and one which’s completely chock-full of sexy folks hanging out bare, having intercourse, and even simply working round in moist clothes earlier than they get killed. Completely entertaining as a late-night film, however earns further factors as one of many horniest current (-ish) examples of the shape.

The place to stream: digital rental