10 Great Erotic Horror Films
Eros and Thanatos battle it out in these horny Halloween horrors, where monstrosity, repressed sexuality and devilish decadence feed into some truly transgressive movies.
Desire and destruction have long shared a pulse. Drawing on the Greek concepts of Eros and Thanatos, Freud framed it as two intertwined drives: one towards life, the other towards death.
French thinker Georges Bataille took it further, seeing their meeting as an ecstatic threshold where life burns brightest at the edge of its own annihilation.
In Paris’s Grand Guignol theatre, gaudy spectacles of mutilation explored the erotically charged tension between sex and violence, foreshadowing cinema’s appetite for transgression.
Decades later, filmmakers like David Cronenberg, Clive Barker, Claire Denis and Julia Ducournau would inherit that impulse, exploring what it means to inhabit (and occasionally ingest) flesh.
Author's summary: Explore erotic horror films.
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