How important is sex in your horror films?

[JoshuaKaitlyn]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Even Hitchcock made viewers believe they'd seen Janet Leigh naked in the shower at the time Norman Bates offed her.

Actually I saw Psycho the other night on blu and I'm almost certain I saw nipples behind the shower curtain!

[Boo Radley]

Between you all, you've nailed it, really.
We all love and appreciate a good solid horror film with no nudity for what it is, a scary adventure like the Universal monster movies or the paranoid 50's mega monster flicks.
However most of us like the view of the naked female form (soz Suzi - and naked male form!) which filmmakers soon gathered and it was probably Hammer that first started mixing the two which made them such a famous company in their day.
None of us would say we wouldn't watch a horror movie if it had too much sex and nakedness in it like I Spit, Serbian, Bunny Game and even Cannibal Holocaust ......would we?
Personally if I watch a horror film that is good I don't get to the end and think, "You know, it would have been so much better if it had T&A in it." I also have never watched a film and thought, "Too much fornication for me!"
Certain genre's require red stuff, some pink. I like both but as the question was How Important Is It In A Horror Film then it is not important all......but desirable sometimes!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

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.

[Boo Radley]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I think perhaps the main issue is how film makers use sex in a horror film.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Even Hitchcock made viewers believe they'd seen Janet Leigh naked in the shower at the time Norman Bates offed her.

Originally Posted by JoshuaKaitlyn

Actually I saw Psycho the other night on blu and I'm almost certain I saw nipples behind the shower curtain!

But did you?

From Wikipedia:

"the censors in charge of enforcing the Production Code wrangled with Hitchcock because some of them insisted they could see one of Leigh's breasts. Hitchcock held onto the print for several days, left it untouched, and resubmitted it for approval. Each of the censors reversed their positions: those who had previously seen the breast now did not, and those who had not, now did"

[Bringer Of Funerals]

That's one way of messing with them lol

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

I actually voted quite important,but really,it don't matter.

Richard Johnson,Claire Bloom and Julie Harris not having a threesome in The Haunting ain't gonna stop me watching it!

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by The Reaper Man@Cult Labs

I actually voted quite important,but really,it don't matter.

Richard Johnson,Claire Bloom and Julie Harris not having a threesome in The Haunting ain't gonna stop me watching it!

Can you survive................The Porking

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Can you survive................The Porking

Porky's in a haunted house, yes please.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

Porky's in a haunted house, yes please.

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