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Have you ever been on a date? Scariest experience of my life. I\u2019d rather go toe-to-toe with Michael Myers\u2014at least I know who I\u2019m really dealing with on the other side of the table. But a lot of recent horror films<\/a> from young directors\u2014like Curry Barker\u2019s indie hit Obsession<\/a> or The Drama<\/a> starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson\u2014understand that there\u2019s so much potential and vulnerability in stories of dating gone wrong.<\/p>\n It all pays homage to the classic dating horror story, Dracula, the vampire who seduced his young victims back to his castle to suck on their blood. The same for Nosferatu<\/a>, who becomes obsessed with a young woman that looks like his dead lover, or The Mummy, who goes so far as to miss his old flame so much that he resurrects her from the grave.<\/p>\n Horror films are a bit scarier nowadays, but they haven\u2019t lost their touch with romance. Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise\u2019s hot vampires in Interview with a Vampire transform Kirsten Dunst in a bloodsucking killer. Jennifer\u2019s Body stars Megan Fox as a demonically possessed high school student who seduces her classmates and eats their flesh, and Obsession turns the crazy girlfriend trope on its head by turning the helpless boyfriend into the film\u2019s real villain.<\/p>\n So, if you survive your next date and are still looking to get your blood pumping (in more ways than one), then look no further. These are the sexiest horror movies of all time.<\/p>\n After Bear (Michael Johnson) wishes on a magical item that his co-worker Nikki (Navarrette) would fall in love with him, the girl of his dreams is taken over by a new persona that thinks only about their relationship. Inde Navarrette is a breakout performer in Obsession\u2019s reversal of the crazy girlfriend horror trope, as she balances the girl next door who is a victim of the curse with the threat of the unsettling new and violent Nikki that Bear\u2019s wish created.<\/p>\n In theaters<\/p>\n Under the Skin polarized audiences when it debuted in 2013. Scarlett Johansson plays an alien who strips, bathes in a void, and seduces men to kill and presumably consume them for food. In this bizarre Jonathan Glazer film, she sets the trap and then punishes men for their desires.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n Are we too desensitized by sex and violence on TV? Probably! But in David Cronenberg\u2019s Videodrome, the Canadian sci-fi body horror flick explores a world in which snuff films are broadcast to an audience who loses their mind after watching them. The 1983 cult classic stars James Woods, Debbie Harry, and Jack Crewley as a character with one of the best names in cinema history: Dr. Brian O’Blivion.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet reunites with Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino for this horror romance about two cannibals on a road trip across America. The film also stars Taylor Russell, Andr\u00e9 Holland, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chlo\u00eb 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.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n In X, a group of fame-hungry actors\u2014including characters played by Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, and Kid Cudi\u2014decide to make a low-budget adult film. Naturally, they opt for the spookiest location possible: a secluded farmhouse in rural Texas. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n This is your classic teens-in-the-woods horror flick\u2014but with a twist. Bodies Bodies Bodies follows a group of friends (and exes) who reunite at a remote cabin, starring Amandla Stenberg, Pete Davidson, Rachel Sennott, and Industry\u2019s Myha’la. It\u2019s all fun and games until one of them winds up dead.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n Sometimes a whirlwind romance isn\u2019t what you expect. In Crimson Peak, a young woman named Edith (Mia Wasikowska) falls for the handsome Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston). 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.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n 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 (Pierre Deladonchamps), 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.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n In this early 1980\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Watch Now<\/a><\/p>\n 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\u2019s true identity in this Lynchian version of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman star as rival ballerinas in this brilliant psychological thriller revolving around a production of Tchaikovsky\u2019s Swan Lake. The tensions run deeper than mere rivalry, or even surface-level attraction, can explain when Portman\u2019s Nina develops a psychosexual obsession with Kunis\u2019s Lily that leads to hallucinatory fantasies and nightmares.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n This South Korean horror-romance, directed by the acclaimed Park Chan-wook, is Twilight meets Fleabag meets\u2026 something else. Parasite\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n 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\u2019s spirit. Throughout this grueling journey, the couple try to maintain their connection amid desperate moments of fiery passion.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n Delphine Seyrig stars as an ageless countess who inhabits a French hotel along with her young prot\u00e9g\u00e9, 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.<\/p>\n Watch Now<\/a><\/p>\n Catherine Deneuve plays a seductive immortal in early ’80s New York City\u2014a 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.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n 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\u2014and 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\u2014and stop Irena from evolving into a deadly leopard.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n 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\u2014and 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?<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n 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\u2014that 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.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n 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).<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n 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\u2014and devious\u2014suitor (played by Jack Nicholson). While he may fulfill some of the women’s desires, he’s also set on destroying their perfect little town.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning fantasy-horror-romance hybrid is essentially a Cold War-era fairy tale for grown-ups. Sally Hawkins stars as a lonely mute woman named Elisa who spends her days mopping the floors of a top-secret government facility. Her life is turned upside down when she discovers an amphibious creature, kept hostage by a sadistic colonel (Michael Shannon). What begins as an unlikely friendship turns, surprisingly, into a hot romp between a woman and a fishman.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n Anna Biller wrote and directed this highly stylized horror comedy about a modern-day witch (Samantha Robinson) who cruises around California in search of various lovers. While she casts spells on her gullible love interests, Biller serves up a delectable feminist film that skewers gender roles and pays homage to 1960s horror inspirations.<\/p>\n Shop Now<\/a><\/p>\n While Luca Guadagnino’s remake has disturbed audiences, you can’t ignore horror master Dario Argento’s spooky, bloody, stylish 1977 original. Jessica Harper stars as Suzy, a promising ballerina who moves to Germany to attend a prestigious dance academy. But when other ballerinas start dropping dead in gruesome ways, Suzy begins to unravel a mystery behind the school.<\/p>\n Watch Now<\/a><\/p>\n Taking some thematic notes from Suspiria, Nicolas Winding Refn’s psychological thriller stars Elle Fanning as an aspiring model who moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams\u2014which quickly become nightmares when the cutthroat world of fashion reveals a sinister (albeit hot) underbelly of corruption and destruction.<\/p>\nObsession<\/h4>\n
Under the Skin<\/h4>\n
Videodrome<\/h4>\n
Bones and All<\/strong><\/h4>\n
X<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Bodies Bodies Bodies<\/h4>\n
Crimson Peak<\/h4>\n
Stranger By the Lake<\/h4>\n
The Black Room<\/h4>\n
Mulholland Drive<\/h4>\n
Black Swan<\/h4>\n
Thirst<\/h4>\n
Don\u2019t Look Now<\/h4>\n
Daughters of Darkness<\/h4>\n
The Hunger<\/h4>\n
Interview with the Vampire<\/h4>\n
Cat People (1982)<\/h4>\n
An American Werewolf in London<\/h4>\n
Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula<\/h4>\n
Jennifer\u2019s Body<\/h4>\n
Only Lovers Left Alive<\/h4>\n
From Dusk Till Dawn<\/h4>\n
The Witches of Eastwick<\/h4>\n
The Shape of Water<\/h4>\n
The Love Witch<\/h4>\n
Suspiria (1977)<\/h4>\n
The Neon Demon<\/h4>\n