![]() ![]() On the surface there’s little to recommend about this shocker aside from gratuitous cruelty and, as the title suggests, necrophilia, but what else would one expect from West Berlin exploitation legend Jörg Buttgereit (Horror Heaven)? There’s a few here that are flat-out trash––those can still be fun––and others that are camp, and others too that are thoughtful, artistic, and even, I would argue, grandiose. Rather than delve into the sexual politics at play here this list instead takes pains to detail genre films that see eroticism and sex in ways that are titillating and, on occasion sublime. Horror by its very nature is exploitative, and combine this with ideas of eroticism and sexuality and you’ll have the pious and the uptight squirming in their seats while the repressed and the churlish similarly agonize and gnash. Many of the films listed here are polarizing, which should come as a shock to no one. Wish-fulfillment sex and violence make for fascinating bedfellows and always have, and this list will please both genre fans and those looking for a chilling provocation. ![]() ![]() Horror films have always tiptoed around or bludgeoned straight on through modes of stimulation and fright.
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