Bones and All
Timothée Chalamet reunites with Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino for this horror romance about two cannibals on a road trip across America. Also starring Taylor Russell, André Holland, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny, Bones and All may not be easy on the stomach, but its stars are certainly easy on the eyes, and the chemistry between them can't be missed.
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In X, a group of fame-hungry actors decide to make an adult film. Naturally, they opt for the spookiest location possible: a secluded house in rural Texas. What could go wrong?
Bodies Bodies Bodies
This is your classic teens-in-the-woods horror flick—but with a twist. Bodies Bodies Bodies follows a group of friends (and exes) who reunite at a remote cabin. It’s all fun and games until one of them winds up dead.
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Crimson Peak
Sometimes a whirlwind romance isn’t what you expect. In Crimson Peak, a young woman named Edith falls for the handsome Sir Thomas Sharpe. Edith assumes things are going well when Sharpe invites her to his mansion in the English countryside, but when they arrive, she learns he's hiding a bloody secret.
Stranger by the Lake
Everyone understands stranger danger until they meet someone hot. Perhaps that's the takeaway lesson of Stranger by the Lake. This sultry thriller follows Franck, a man who meets (you guessed it!) a stranger by the lake. He's instantly captivated, but his curiosity leads him down a dark path.
The Black Room
In this 1982 film, a cheating husband rents a room in a Hollywood Hills mansion for his sexual trysts from a pair of (unbeknownst to him) serial-killing siblings. After he leaves, they capture his mistresses to drain their blood.
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Mullholland Drive
This David Lynch-directed thriller, starring Laura Harring as an amnesiac car-crash victim who receives the serendipitous aid of a struggling actress (Naomi Watts), is as haunting as it is intoxicating. The chemistry between the two is palpable as they struggle to uncover the victim’s true identity in this Lynchian version of Los Angeles.
Black Swan
Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman star as rival ballerinas in this brilliant psychological thriller revolving around a production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. The tensions run deeper than mere rivalry, or even surface-level attraction, can explain when Portman’s Nina develops a psychosexual obsession with Kunis’s Lily that leads to hallucinatory fantasies and nightmares.
Thirst
This South Korean horror-romance, directed by the acclaimed Park Chan-wook, is Twilight meets Fleabag meets… something else. Parasite’s Song Kang-ho stars as a devout priest turned blood- and sex-thirsty vampire after coming in contact with a deadly virus while volunteering. (Yikes.) His newfound instincts lead him to a lust-filled affair with a married woman.
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Don’t Look Now
Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland star as a married couple who, mourning the recent death of their child, flee to Venice. Though an attempt to find respite from their grief, the trip turns haunting when they encounter two sisters who claim to have communicated with their child’s spirit. Throughout this grueling journey, the couple try to maintain their connection amid desperate moments of fiery passion.
Daughters of Darkness
Delphine Seyrig stars as an ageless countess who inhabits a French hotel along with her young protégé, played by Andrea Rau. The mystery of the two beautiful women unravels when unsuspecting newlyweds find themselves tangled in their web of seduction. This vintage vampire flick is as sultry in its artful, gothic aesthetics as it is in its acts of demented desire.
The Hunger
Catherine Deneuve plays a seductive immortal in early '80s New York City—a woman as stylish as she is beautiful. When her companion (David Bowie) begins to fade, she sets her sights on a new lover: a doctor played by Susan Sarandon.
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Interview with the Vampire
Neil Jordan's adaptation of Anne Rice's novel is super '90s, with heartthrobs Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Antonio Banderas playing brooding immortals dealing with the neuroses that come with everlasting life (and a desire for human blood). It's probably one of the most homoerotic movies ever made, and it introduced the world to Kirsten Dunst, who plays a maniacal child vampire.
Cat People
Nastassja Kinski stars as Irena, a young woman who is visiting her brother Paul (Malcolm McDowell) in New Orleans. After she falls in love with a zoologist named Oliver (John Heard), Paul reveals to his sister that they are, in fact, werecats—and she must mate with another of their species to prevent her ultimate transformation. Thus begins a deadly game of cat and human as Irena and Oliver need to outsmart Paul—and stop Irena from evolving into a deadly leopard.
An American Werewolf in London
Most people remember John Landis's horror comedy for the fantastic special and makeup effects in a terrifying scene in which the hapless protagonist turns into a werewolf. (Not to mention the undead Griffin Dunne roaming around with half a face.) But it's also notable for a hot shower scene between its stars, David Naughton and Jenny Agutter.
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
You could call this Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, but that would be too unwieldy. And while the famed Godfather director's adaptation of the seminal vampire novel does teeter off the edge into vampire mania, it's still a lush, star-studded, deeply erotic version of the classic horror tale, with Gary Oldman delivering a tour-de-force performance as the bloodsucking villain.
Jennifer’s Body
Megan Fox stars in this pitch-black comedy, from director Karyn Kusama and writer Diablo Cody, as the ultimate mean girl. Jennifer has always been the queen bee in her class—and has spent years tormenting her "best" friend Anita (Amanda Seyfried). But is she just a mean girl, or could she possibly be under the influence of a demonic spirit who uses her body to feast on horny teenage boys?
Only Lovers Left Alive
Adam (Tom Hiddleston) is a depressed musician who cannot handle the existential dread of everyday living. But a reunion with his devoted lover Eve (Tilda Swinton) reignites his passion for life—that is, until her wild little sister comes to shake things up. Oh, and of course: They're vampires, having lived and loved and loathed humanity for centuries.
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From Dusk Till Dawn
Robert Rodriguez directs this cult classic starring George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino (who wrote the script) as the bank-robbing Gecko brothers, who cross the border into Mexico with hostages in tow. But when they arrive at the Titty Twister, a strip club in the middle of the desert, their hope for refuge is lost when the bar's patrons and employees are revealed to be vampires led by a ferocious queen, Santanico Pandemonium (Salma Hayek).
The Witches of Eastwick
In a picturesque Rhode Island town, three bored women (played by Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer) discover they have some impressive powers when they accidentally conjure up a seductive—and devious—suitor (played by Jack Nicholson). While he may fulfill some of the women's desires, he's also set on destroying their perfect little town.
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