The Thirstening
October 20, 2023 3:17 PM Subscribe
“Hey Chloe,” you say, “I would like both Four Weddings and the Funeral and my relationship with Doctor Who completely sullied while still nourishing my relationship with my vinyl fetish. You got anything for me?” - Ten flicks that'll make you thirsty... for blood!
Yeah, just reading the quote and I was like “You are Lair of the White Wyrm and I claim my five pounds!”
posted by notoriety public at 3:32 PM on October 20, 2023 [6 favorites]
posted by notoriety public at 3:32 PM on October 20, 2023 [6 favorites]
Maybe this needs a SpookySeason tag!
posted by hippybear at 3:32 PM on October 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by hippybear at 3:32 PM on October 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
It shall be so!
posted by Artw at 3:36 PM on October 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by Artw at 3:36 PM on October 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
This is a great listicle. One page, non ranked choices, and great theme.
New to me this year is Jean Rollin, a French horror erotica with decades of films. Two Orphan Vampires stood out to me, like a no budget The Craft with more palpable horror and uncomfortable erotic vibes.
posted by kittensofthenight at 3:58 PM on October 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
New to me this year is Jean Rollin, a French horror erotica with decades of films. Two Orphan Vampires stood out to me, like a no budget The Craft with more palpable horror and uncomfortable erotic vibes.
posted by kittensofthenight at 3:58 PM on October 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
I looked at this list and thought it was excellent, and then saw that it was by Artw, which made perfect sense. Impeccable taste. I might add a few older Southern European films to the list, they're pretty outrageously horny by default. I'd suggest:
Sergio Martino's gialli, in particular, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh and Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (yes, giallo titles are fantastic). Also, Fulci's A Lizard in a Woman's Skin and maybe The New York Ripper, although it's more of a slahser, and only if you can stand the misogyny. Same goes for Argento's Tenebre. The Sister of Ursula is super-horny, but also very trashy. Anything with Edwige Fenech is guaranteed to be sexy.
Also some Spanish films, the Blind Dead films by Amando de Ossorio are pretty sexual (and quite good and creepy, especially the first two), although they tend to be rapey. I've also recently been looking at some Paul Naschy films, and they also tend to be very horny, the guy essentially made like ten Wolfman films with nudity and sex in them.
If you like horny trash, anything by Jesús Franco and Joe D'Amato is guaranteed to work for you. Vampyros Lesbos, Erotic Nights of the Living Dead, A Virgin Among the Living Dead, Beyond Darkness, and so on, are essentially horror films with more or less hardcore sex sequences and varying degrees of taboo subject matter, if that's your cup of tea.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 4:04 PM on October 20, 2023 [4 favorites]
Sergio Martino's gialli, in particular, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh and Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (yes, giallo titles are fantastic). Also, Fulci's A Lizard in a Woman's Skin and maybe The New York Ripper, although it's more of a slahser, and only if you can stand the misogyny. Same goes for Argento's Tenebre. The Sister of Ursula is super-horny, but also very trashy. Anything with Edwige Fenech is guaranteed to be sexy.
Also some Spanish films, the Blind Dead films by Amando de Ossorio are pretty sexual (and quite good and creepy, especially the first two), although they tend to be rapey. I've also recently been looking at some Paul Naschy films, and they also tend to be very horny, the guy essentially made like ten Wolfman films with nudity and sex in them.
If you like horny trash, anything by Jesús Franco and Joe D'Amato is guaranteed to work for you. Vampyros Lesbos, Erotic Nights of the Living Dead, A Virgin Among the Living Dead, Beyond Darkness, and so on, are essentially horror films with more or less hardcore sex sequences and varying degrees of taboo subject matter, if that's your cup of tea.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 4:04 PM on October 20, 2023 [4 favorites]
Lol. My post, not my list! But it has several favorite films of mine on it, hovering somewhere between works of genius and glorious trash.
posted by Artw at 4:05 PM on October 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by Artw at 4:05 PM on October 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
Artw: Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you made the list, but it's a good post, and I think of the films I've seen on this list (all but two), the only one I don't really like much is Species, which is not great.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 4:09 PM on October 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 4:09 PM on October 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
That is probably the only one I’d question a bit… I’m very fond of it but it doesn’t feel like it’s exactly a fit. The mid to late 90s are kind of a horror fallow period and I guess that extends to the theme here.
posted by Artw at 4:15 PM on October 20, 2023
posted by Artw at 4:15 PM on October 20, 2023
Oh, and also, Stuart Gordon's From Beyond is the horniest movie about interdimensional monsters biting people's heads off. No, that's not a euphemism.
Artw: I used to think that too about the mid to late 90s, but there's some good stuff once you start looking, I guess Scream is the big one, but also In the Mouth of Madness, New Nightmare, Fallen, The Frighteners, Stir of Echoes, Seven, of course, and obviously a bunch of Japanese stuff that had a big boom right about then, not just Ringu, but also Kurosawa's Cure, which is one of my all-time favorites. The new Spanish horror wave was just starting... It was mostly a lot of mainstream American horror that was kind of bad and uninspired.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 4:21 PM on October 20, 2023 [4 favorites]
Artw: I used to think that too about the mid to late 90s, but there's some good stuff once you start looking, I guess Scream is the big one, but also In the Mouth of Madness, New Nightmare, Fallen, The Frighteners, Stir of Echoes, Seven, of course, and obviously a bunch of Japanese stuff that had a big boom right about then, not just Ringu, but also Kurosawa's Cure, which is one of my all-time favorites. The new Spanish horror wave was just starting... It was mostly a lot of mainstream American horror that was kind of bad and uninspired.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 4:21 PM on October 20, 2023 [4 favorites]
The Hunger. So perfect, so 80s, so sexy vampire sexy sexy...
posted by supermedusa at 4:42 PM on October 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by supermedusa at 4:42 PM on October 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
Event Horizon in 1997!
posted by biffa at 4:43 PM on October 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by biffa at 4:43 PM on October 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
Metafilter: hovering somewhere between works of genius and glorious trash.
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 4:45 PM on October 20, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 4:45 PM on October 20, 2023 [4 favorites]
is Event Horizon sexy?
This ends in a Halloween costume.
posted by Artw at 4:56 PM on October 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
This ends in a Halloween costume.
posted by Artw at 4:56 PM on October 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
The Wicker Man starts out horny. By the end it's just hot.
posted by phooky at 5:02 PM on October 20, 2023 [6 favorites]
posted by phooky at 5:02 PM on October 20, 2023 [6 favorites]
The Wicker Man starts out horny. By the end it's just hot.
Akshually, it's mostly horny towards the middle (and it gets a lot hornier if you listen to the lyrics of some of the songs, because good lord, "How a maid can milk a bull / And every stroke a bucketful"), but good joke.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 5:27 PM on October 20, 2023 [3 favorites]
Akshually, it's mostly horny towards the middle (and it gets a lot hornier if you listen to the lyrics of some of the songs, because good lord, "How a maid can milk a bull / And every stroke a bucketful"), but good joke.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 5:27 PM on October 20, 2023 [3 favorites]
Should also be included: Café Flesh and Dr Caligari, both written by the same guy, Stephen Sayadian, who operated under the pseudo Rinse Dream.
posted by seanmpuckett at 5:46 PM on October 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by seanmpuckett at 5:46 PM on October 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
Strong agree: the soundtrack to The Wicker Man is extremely horny. "For patching and plugging is his delight..."
posted by phooky at 6:14 PM on October 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by phooky at 6:14 PM on October 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
Stuart Gordon's From Beyond is the horniest movie about interdimensional monsters biting people's heads off.
Agreed. Wild movie.
posted by doctornemo at 6:31 PM on October 20, 2023
Agreed. Wild movie.
posted by doctornemo at 6:31 PM on October 20, 2023
Nice list. A few extra notes:
Possession is as the author says.
Shivers is wild stuff. Ah, early Cronenberg indeed, building up to the glories of Videodrome.
Cat People: ah, I prefer the original, which has so many fine things going on.
posted by doctornemo at 6:33 PM on October 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
Possession is as the author says.
Shivers is wild stuff. Ah, early Cronenberg indeed, building up to the glories of Videodrome.
Cat People: ah, I prefer the original, which has so many fine things going on.
posted by doctornemo at 6:33 PM on October 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
The scene in Mulholland Dr. with Naomi Watts as "Diane Selwin" masturbating in furious, self-loathing grief followed by her "discovery" of her own corpse fucked me up. Like, that image of her dead, decomposing face, in the context of watching that scene, is easily one of the most frightening images in my head and, frankly, for years I regretted seeing it (that scene, not the entire movie). It's like a negative image of the apotheosis of the eroticism that the audience has been expecting, that's been building — it takes all that lurid libido and turns it into something infected and toxic. What a metaphor for Hollywood.
Oh, as I think about this, I can hear that sound that's in the background of film, and definitely that scene: that white noise / hum that gets louder as the sense of disassociation waxes and wanes through the movie. It's an elaboration of the trope of the sound muting that signals stress and intense interiority that I think is inspired by the real experience people have when very stressed, but I don't think any other film has incorporated this so fully into a film's sound design. But the sound design on the film in general is amazing. (Am I mistaken in recalling that The Witch did similarly creepy shit in its sound design?)
Really, Mulholland Dr. is one of the most unnerving things I've ever experienced and I'm becoming uncomfortable just writing about it.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 7:51 PM on October 20, 2023 [11 favorites]
Oh, as I think about this, I can hear that sound that's in the background of film, and definitely that scene: that white noise / hum that gets louder as the sense of disassociation waxes and wanes through the movie. It's an elaboration of the trope of the sound muting that signals stress and intense interiority that I think is inspired by the real experience people have when very stressed, but I don't think any other film has incorporated this so fully into a film's sound design. But the sound design on the film in general is amazing. (Am I mistaken in recalling that The Witch did similarly creepy shit in its sound design?)
Really, Mulholland Dr. is one of the most unnerving things I've ever experienced and I'm becoming uncomfortable just writing about it.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 7:51 PM on October 20, 2023 [11 favorites]
Honestly, for any number of people, [David Lynch Project Title] is one of the most unnerving things they've ever experienced. He's good that way.
posted by hippybear at 8:05 PM on October 20, 2023 [9 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 8:05 PM on October 20, 2023 [9 favorites]
"Heinekin? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon..."
posted by Windopaene at 8:09 PM on October 20, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by Windopaene at 8:09 PM on October 20, 2023 [3 favorites]
Number 1: I've never run into a David Lynch thing that wasn't in the end as aesthetic delight, no matter how upsetting the contents of that container.
Number 2: lair of the white worm is a hoot. It's weird in ways that pull at a dozen opposing threads to how you would normally craft a film and in doing so is an utter delight.
posted by Ferreous at 9:41 PM on October 20, 2023 [3 favorites]
Number 2: lair of the white worm is a hoot. It's weird in ways that pull at a dozen opposing threads to how you would normally craft a film and in doing so is an utter delight.
posted by Ferreous at 9:41 PM on October 20, 2023 [3 favorites]
Horny vampires? How about horny space vampires? I offer you 1985’s Lifeforce.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:28 PM on October 20, 2023 [13 favorites]
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:28 PM on October 20, 2023 [13 favorites]
Species had the sort of mixed discomfort / discomfort* impact for me that makes it fit well into this list. Not that I’d ever suggest it to anyone, but, like. It makes sense to me.
posted by Callisto Prime at 11:30 PM on October 20, 2023
posted by Callisto Prime at 11:30 PM on October 20, 2023
Nice to see Under the Skin get some love. Unfortunately, it tends to get buried under all the adolescent “OMGSCARLETTJOHANSSONNEKKID!!!!!” nonsense. But, it’s a pretty fascinating little film, and well worth a viewing or three.
posted by Thorzdad at 3:54 AM on October 21, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by Thorzdad at 3:54 AM on October 21, 2023 [4 favorites]
Under the Skin is great, and the novel is also worth a read. Quite different and more explicitly communicates the themes and plot, but in a way that I really enjoyed.
Bunch of movies going on my list from this post and comments, thanks!
posted by okonomichiyaki at 6:02 AM on October 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
Bunch of movies going on my list from this post and comments, thanks!
posted by okonomichiyaki at 6:02 AM on October 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
bonus Bowie: he also sings the theme song for Cat People (recycled for chilling effect in Inglourious Basterds), and in general Giorgio Moroder’s soundtrack for Cat People is great; he deserved an Oscar for it IMO.
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:44 AM on October 21, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:44 AM on October 21, 2023 [2 favorites]
I find it strange that anyone who watched Under The Skin would count it as horny. ScarJos alien certainly uses her sexualness, but t a tool like a steel hook on a fishing line. She uses only what is required to drag the men in. By the time she gets to frontal nudity, it's horrific because she's only going that far to try and trap the guy who doesn't deserve that fate.
So deeply unsexy. Such deeply shocking horror.
posted by WhackyparseThis at 11:31 PM on October 21, 2023 [2 favorites]
So deeply unsexy. Such deeply shocking horror.
posted by WhackyparseThis at 11:31 PM on October 21, 2023 [2 favorites]
The book it’s based on is even more unfcomfortable-making
posted by thedaniel at 5:08 AM on October 22, 2023
posted by thedaniel at 5:08 AM on October 22, 2023
Shivers is wild stuff. Ah, early Cronenberg indeed, building up to the glories of Videodrome.
Shivers is available for free on RokuTV. I'm struggling to make it through. It's really bad and slow, like not worthy of '80s USA Up All Night bad. I'd replace it with Cheerleader Camp , which even has a twist ending and several red herring villians.
posted by The_Vegetables at 3:05 PM on October 23, 2023
Shivers is available for free on RokuTV. I'm struggling to make it through. It's really bad and slow, like not worthy of '80s USA Up All Night bad. I'd replace it with Cheerleader Camp , which even has a twist ending and several red herring villians.
posted by The_Vegetables at 3:05 PM on October 23, 2023
Shivers is available for free on RokuTV. I'm struggling to make it through. It's really bad and slow, like not worthy of '80s USA Up All Night bad.
To each his own, I think it's a genuinely very good movie.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 11:57 AM on October 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
To each his own, I think it's a genuinely very good movie.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 11:57 AM on October 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
Another fun film that would fit here is the Italian existential, comedy, zombie film Cemetery Man (original title: Dellamorte Dellamore). It’s a gory, sexy romp starring of all people Rupert Everett as a devastatingly handsome caretaker of a cemetery in a sleepy Italian village who gets mired in bureaucracy and sexual intrigue.
posted by Cogito at 5:36 AM on October 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Cogito at 5:36 AM on October 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
Cogito: That's a good one, and for more straight/traditional horror, director Michele Soavi has made a few other good ones: Stage Fright (1987) aka Deliria, is a straight slasher, but kind of worthwhile and fun, if you're into Italian horror at least. The Church (1989) is a pseudo-sequel to Lamberto Bava's two Demons films (of which at least the first is very worth watching if you like 80s horror and creepy zombie-demon things), but is actually better than either of them in my opinion, very atmospheric and gets kind of bonkers towards the end, and The Sect (1991) is overly ambitious and a bit muddled, but also has a nice creepy atmosphere.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 4:27 PM on October 25, 2023
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 4:27 PM on October 25, 2023
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