One of my favorite vampire tropes is that they need your permission to enter your house. They must be invited in, technically, before they seduce you. Is it all a trick? Totally. Dracula turns playful neck kisses into feasting on your blood, but sexy vampire fan fiction didn’t rule the Internet during’s Twilight’s reign.
Sexy situations turning into horrifically violent nightmares are still all the rage in films nowadays. Curry Barker’s indie hit Obsession plays on the crazy ex-girlfriend trope. Bodies Bodies Bodies filled a house with horny teens that ended up murdering each other, and The Substance contained just as many shots of gyrating asses as it did some of the most horrific body horror on screen in the last decade.
But if you’re looking for the sexiest horror movies in film history, you’ve been invited to the right place. Below, we also list Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise’s Interview with the Vampire, Megan Fox’s Jennifer’s Body, and thrillers like Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. These are the sexiest horror movies of all time.
Obsession
After Bear (Michael Johnson) wishes on a magical item that his co-worker Nikki (Inde Navarrette) would fall in love with him, the girl of his dreams is taken over by a scary new persona that thinks only about their relationship. Navarrette is a breakout performer in Obsession’s reversal of the crazy girlfriend horror trope, as the girl next door becomes a victim of Bear’s terrible curse.
Under the Skin
Under the Skin polarized audiences when it debuted in 2013. In this bizarre Jonathan Glazer film, Scarlett Johansson plays an alien who strips, bathes in a void, and seduces men to kill before presumably consuming them for food. Since its debut, Under the Skin’s garnered a cult following.
Videodrome
Are we too desensitized by sex and violence on TV? Probably! But in David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, the Canadian sci-fi body horror flick explores a world in which snuff films are broadcast to an audience live on air. The 1983 cult classic stars James Woods, Debbie Harry, and Jack Creley as a character with one of the best names in cinema history: Dr. Brian O'Blivion.
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. The film also stars Taylor Russell, André Holland, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny. Fair warning: 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.
X
In X, a group of fame-hungry actors—including characters played by Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, and Kid Cudi—decide 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?
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, starring Amandla Stenberg, Pete Davidson, Rachel Sennott, and Industry’s Myha'la. It’s all fun and games until one of them winds up dead.
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 (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.
The Black Room
In this early 1980s film, a cheating husband rents a room in a Hollywood Hills mansion from a pair of (unbeknownst to him) serial-killing siblings. He needs a place for his newfound sexual trysts, which opens up an opportunity for his new landlord’s killing spree as well.
Mulholland 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. But the tensions run deeper than mere rivalry, or even surface-level attraction, when Portman’s Nina develops a psychosexual obsession with Kunis’s Lily that leads to hallucinatory fantasies.
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 sex-thirsty vampire after he comes in contact with a deadly virus. (Yikes.) Then, his newfound instincts lead him to a lust-filled affair with a married woman.
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. During 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.
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 (1982)
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 secretly werecats. In this remake of the original 1942 thriller, Irena must mate with another of their species to prevent her ultimate transformation. So 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. 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, has kept the cult film alive for the last forty years. But Am American Werewolf in London is also notable for a particular hot shower scene between its stars, David Naughton and Jenny Agutter.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
The famed Godfather director's adaptation of the seminal vampire novel occasionally teeters off the edge into vampire mania, but it's still a lush, star-studded, deeply erotic version of the classic horror tale. Gary Oldman delivers a tour-de-force performance as the bloodsucking villain in a film that costars Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, Tom Waits, and Monica Bellucci.
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?
The Substance
Have you ever wanted to feel young again? In Coralie Fargeat’s award-winning body horror thriller, fading Hollywood star Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) takes an experimental drug that promises to create a younger, sexier version of yourself. Really, the other self emerges from your body and sucks off your life force, turning its fountain of youth into an absolute nightmare.
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. When they cross the border into Mexico with hostages in tow, the brothers arrive at the Titty Twister, a strip club in the middle of the desert. Then, their hope for refuge is lost after the bar's patrons and employees reveal themselves as 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.
The Shape of Water
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 sexy romp between a woman and a fishman.
Suspiria (1977)
While Luca Guadagnino's remake may have disturbed audiences, you can't ignore horror master Dario Argento's bloody, stylish original from 1977. 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’s spooky owners.
The Neon Demon
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. Her trip quickly becomes nightmarish when the cutthroat world of fashion reveals a sinister (albeit sexy) underbelly of corruption and destruction.