Sex in Horror Films

[Hobgoblin]

I've seen this debate pop up a few times. Some people like sex in a horror film and others think it has no place. Now I grew up watching Friday the 13th movies so I just assumed that sex was part of the genre just as much as blood and guts. Other says its distracting and if you want to see sex, watch a porno.

I say, horror flicks are pretty base and debauched as they are, so why not go for broke?

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Sex is almost essential for most awesome slasher films these days and I think it should continue if it's necessary. Why? Because it fits. It works best with the slasher genre and it's become a tradition with Friday The 13th films as well as Halloween, and many others.

 

[Nemi]

I would say that sex does have a place in horror films, but that of course doesn't make it a requirement. You can have horror movies that have some thrown in cause.....boobs, and some where it's actually part of the horror and plot like Teeth or Antichrist.

 

[DACrowe]

It can be thematically crucial, such as in Coppola's Dracula. It can also important to the narrative (Scream).

However, it is usually gratuitous nudity in B or C-fare used to appeal to teen boys and laughter for the rest.

 

[The Joker]

I've no problem with sex in horror movies. The Halloween movies had it, too, including the classic original, complete with a naked breasts shot and all.

God bless P.J. Soles.

 

[Eggyman]

I can take it or leave it. It doesn't really bother me. Most of the time it isn't needed, but usually in the horror we're given the stuff they do need isn't there--may as well see a bit of tit.

 

[HighFivingMF]

God bless P.J. Soles.

Indeed.

I could take it or leave it, I'd rather leave it. But whatever, it doesn't bug me. Cabin Fever 2 has to be one of the worst horror sequels I've ever seen (next to Sleepaway Camp 4) and everyone assumes I hate it because of all the filth. It's just because it was ****ing awful.

 

[Carnotaur3]

I find sex in horror/slasher movies misplaced.

When I say misplaced, I mean that they use it for the wrong reasons. If sex is supposed to be a kind of death curse for characters, then why not use it as horror as well. Why can't sex be... scary?

 

[Majik1387]

Indeed.

I could take it or leave it, I'd rather leave it. But whatever, it doesn't bug me. Cabin Fever 2 has to be one of the worst horror sequels I've ever seen (next to Sleepaway Camp 4) and everyone assumes I hate it because of all the filth. It's just because it was ****ing awful.

SC4 made me so mad.

As for the topic at hand, I'm fine with it, but it doesn't bother me if a horror movie doesn't have it or if it's randomly placed and gratuitous, I'd just prefer some more male objectification.

 

[HighFivingMF]

SC4 made me so mad.

I can hardly remember it, that's how quickly my brain's blocked it out. I remember it looking like a Youtube video before it was finished processing and something about a frog.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Being someone unattractive who doesn't get sex, it's great seeing young popular people attractive people having the times of there lives about to be slashed up. Part of the appeal of slasher movies is seeing this people "get it" at the right moment (usually when having a great time, including sex). Although it's not a horror film, it was the problem with Cloverfield. Who had these young hipster *****bags and in a slasher movie, these are the people you would be hoping "get it". Instead you are suppose to want them to live, it doesn't work.

 

[Majik1387]

Cloverfield wasn't a slasher movie. Sex scenes aren't only in slasher horror movies.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

That's why I said it wasn't a horror film.

 

[Majik1387]

Nah, I'd definitely classify it as a monster horror.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Well yea, it's a disaster monster movie.
With disaster movies in general e.g. "The Poseidon Adventure" the viewer is generally suppose to like and want the people to survive the ordeal. This seems to be the case with Cloverfield. When they start it out with a bunch of snoty nosed pretty people having the time of there lifes in some upper-class building it generally has (at least for me) the slasher effect of wanting to see them picked off. At no point did I like, or want the main character to live. Compare that to another (non disaster and better) monster movie like "The Host" I liked every character, wanted them to live and was sad at the end of the movie when the girl died.

 

[Spider-Who?]

Being an attractive person who enjoys a semi healthy amount of sex, I find your opinion of attractive, sexually active people insulting.


Joking aside, one ust admit, the outlook you've expressed isnt exactly healthy. I'd almost go so sar as to call it quite vain and shallow.

Bur back on topic...horror movies, by their nature, appeal to our depraved and animalistic nature. I don't see the inclusion of sex or obscene sexuality to be anything one should have issue with in these types of movies. Though speaking from a purely cinematic standpoint, its best left for use that is appropriate for the film; though I don't think I've ever co,plainer when it was thrown in there just for the hell of it.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Joking aside, one ust admit, the outlook you've expressed isnt exactly healthy.

I think it probably is. Attractive people get teh sex with other attractive people. Become top of the food chain in schools/colleges. And alot of the time treat unattractive nerds as lower class. I'v seen it and see it all over the place. I'm sure pretty much everyone else has also. Do I think people have a open minded view rather than a form of contempt? Nope. When the blond bimbo princess is running through the woods about to get her throat slit, people love it! They aren't cheering her on, they are cheering the killer. He almost becomes an anti-hero at that moment.

Even when you look at the movie that popularized slashers. Jamie lee Curtis character is a baby-sitting book-worm geek who hasn't had sex than someone who chooses to go out partying. The popular randy people "get it". She survives. The boogie-man doesn't die and lives for a further 25 sequels. Then Rob Zombie makes another terrible movie.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I've always found horror to be a very primal kind of entertainment. It is life and death type stuff. I'm sure that cavemen told horror stories about monsters around camp fires. In those days they just wanted to stay alive when so many things were out to kill them. Sex is life giving and keeping the population stable was vital. Horror takes us back to those harrowing early days of man kind, when all they could do is hope for survival. There is something horrible about being killed during sex (as seems to be popular in horror flicks). Its like hope just got extinguished.



Yes, I'm way over thinking this.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ Well said, lol.

 

[Motown Marvel]

There are people who have problems with sex in horror films? That's....odd.

I've always said three things necessary for horror films is boobs, blood, and gore.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ This, lol.

 

[moviedoors]

Oh, how I miss the 80's. If you're making a B-grade, popcorn, midnight movie that exists only to get a rise out of people, then for godsake, put the boobs back in them. The boob has all but vanished from cinema screens that don't cater to art house film. I don't want to cry every time I get a look at a boob in a movie! The penis has had a huge renaissance in film, and good for the penis, but now let's have our beloved boobies make a comeback!

More mammaries in the movies! Piranha 3-D may have been clinically ******ed, but at least it had the good sense to throw some of that blood on some boobs.

 

[HighFivingMF]

The penis has had a huge renaissance in film, and good for the penis,

 

[moviedoors]

Hey, he needs love too.

 

[terry78]

Yeah, the last time I actually saw a pair of naked boobs in an R rated flick was Bad Teacher. Every other one I've seen for the past five years that involved nudity has either been a dude's ass or his bait and tackle.