I think perhaps the main issue is how film makers use sex in a horror film.
To utilize both sex and horror properly isn't that easy in today's PG rated horror society. Both elements require thought and build up to have any impact emotionally. Without this, films just become a series of flashy ineffectual jump scares and tit shots or pointless fumblings.
In a way Wes Craven's Scream and it's often derided rules of horror really come into play. Simply because the sex or nudity is more often than not the catalyst for the next murder. Applied the right way, such as by directors like Cronenberg and Lynch, horror and sex go hand in hand.
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