The ten most memorable horror movie sex scenes

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Watching horny teenagers get dismembered by monsters/serial killers/ a guy in a hockey mask is as American as apple pie. Horror movies contain some of worst (and therefore wildly entertaining) sex scenes ever captured on film, but a few of them actually have a unique eroticism that can quicken your pulse. Here are the ten most memorable:

Bordello of Blood

Screw those brooding tween vampires in Twilight. This campy, so-bad-it’s-good flick features gratuitous nudity of the prostitute persuasion. When hapless victims climb inside a coffin, they’re whisked away to a basement—and an orgy featuring vampire women of loose morality.

The famously homicidal doll gets a new playmate, and although he’s been asexual prior to this installment, he just can’t help but succumb to Tiffany’s plastic charm. After pointing out that he’s indeed anatomically correct, the dolls disrobe and get it on. But safe sex is paramount. “Wait—do you have a rubber?” Tiffany asks. “Look at me,” he replies incredulously. “I’m all rubber!” And in the end Chucky gets lucky.

Did they or didn’t they? While tame by today’s standards, the Julie Christie/Donald Sutherland cinematic classic was eyebrow-raising when it was released in 1973. The film’s love scene was so convincing that for years moviegoers were convinced the couple wasn’t faking it. Although Sutherland recently said that the intensity present in the scene was acting—not actual copulation—many viewers remain unconvinced.

The scenario: You want to have sex with a hot vampire, but you’re worried she’ll make a meal out of you during the act. The solution? Handcuff her. In this overlooked John Landis film, a cop falls in love with a mysterious vampiress—from behind.

In this campy 80s flick in which many infamous horror clichés were born, Kevin Bacon fans were treated to their first glimpse of his cute dimples—and I’m not talking about his smile. But it wasn’t the actual sex that made this scene memorable. It was Bacon’s post-coitus demise, in which a fatal puncture to the neck gave new meaning to the term deep throat, that helped make the film a classic. 

Neve Campbell is an emotionally complex teenager that just wants everything to be “right” before giving up her cherry to Skeet Ulrich (remember him?). But apparently, all she really needed was the decapitation and stabbings of a few close friends to get her in the mood. In a loving and poignant moment reminiscent of an after school special, Neve’s virginity is lost to…the guy that tries to kill her five minutes later.   

We know now that distracting Christian Bale during a take can result in a violent tirade, but in American Psycho vexing Bale can result in more than a stream of f-bombs. When not murdering hookers, Bale took the time to fornicate with them, and the most memorable scene in the film showed our twisted protagonist in a jubilant threesome set to Phil Collins’ Sussudio. But the prostitutes proved to be unnecessary, as Bale spent more time checking out himself in the mirror then getting the most bang for his hooker bucks.

Most horror films have sex scenes in which the female characters are made vulnerable, but this little indie jewel featured a death scene unlike any other: A girl’s maneating vagina parts a man’s favorite appendage from his body. But if it’s any consolation, the girl was a God-fearing youth group devotee and a very sweet young lady (minus the winkie chomping).

Frankenstein’s fiancé isn’t about to have sex with the hideous monster that kidnaps her—until he drops his trousers. “Woof!” says Madeline Kahn, and quickly succumbs to his drooling, groaning charms. And laugh if you will, but when was the last time a person sang when you gave them the lovin’?

Is it possible to get violated by a severed head? Sure is! In one of the latter scenes in this H.P. Lovecraft film, a dismembered doctor doesn’t let his decapitation get in the way of molesting a bound and terrified coed. He orders his body to pick up his sex-minded head, and then proceeds to violate his victim. But on the plus side, while most women complain that men only want to receive, this guy’s a giver once he’s got you bound and gagged.