Horror Roundtable - Week Thirty-Two
Name your favourite erotic scene from any horror film.
I just love the whole bunch of them from Larraz’s VAMPYRES–especially when they turn deliriously bloody as the girls start to feed.
Maybe not entirely erotic, but definitely a favourite: Pat Barrington’s Bond-inspired “gold girl” striptease from the original nudie ghoulie, Orgy of the Dead. “Throw gold at her! More gold!”
Runner up: Erika Blanc emerging out of her coffin for a sexy stage show in The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave.
Jeff O’Brien
The lesbian scene from The Hunger.
Sean T. Collins - Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat
Basically any scene involving Patricia Arquette in David Lynch’s Lost Highway. Early on with Bill Pullman, toward the end with Baltazar Getty, walking up to the gas station, held at gunpoint…holy smokes.
Definitely has to be Ingrid Pitt’s scenes in Countess Dracula, still fantastic to this day!
Since I’m apparently in a Christian Bale mood this week, can I just say the entirety of American Pyscho? Like, it feels so wrong to have allowed Bale to reach that height of hotness playing a monster like Patrick Bateman, so that anything he does - from his morning workout routine to his evening mutilations - is erotically charged to the point of total confusion on my part. Like, riiiiight, I’m supposed to be afraid of him, and not totally willing to jump into bed with him anyway even though I now the pliers will be coming out at the end. Mmkay.
How can one not love the fireside lovemaking from THE HOWLING? It’s both an erotic scene and a horror scene. I can tell you it made me want to be a werewolf… Then of course there’s the exploding crack whore orgy in FRANKENHOOKER for those that need to get their freak on… and of course, I defintiely wanted to be the head that gave Barbara Crampton the willies in RE-ANIMATOR. She was gorgeous in that scene.
David Z. - Tomb It May Concern
Easy one…Lina Romay meets bedpost in FEMALE VAMPIRE!
There are a ot of good candidates here. Sex and death, and by extension, sex and horror, are closely intertwined, after all. Scenes that immediately spring to mind is Lucy Westenra having sex with Dracula in half-animal form in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, as well as quite a few things by David Cronenberg.
But my favourite of all time is Linnea Quigley’s infamous lipstick scene in Night of the Demons. There are a lot of reasons why I love this scene, but I think the main ones are that Linnea Quigley was (and still is) incredibly hot, and that I saw this movie at a very early age, probably when I was about 12 or 13. It’s likely that it’s warped my sexuality for life, but I think Linnea is worth it.
Stacie - Final Girl
Undoubtedly, Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers! After they’ve done the deed in the woods, Ally turns to Rob and says “Listen, you don’t have AIDS or anything, do you?” That’s WHITE HOT!
Mark - Exclamation Mark’s SciFi/Horror Review
I’ve always been very partial to Salma Hayek’s snake dance in From Dusk Till Dawn.
Casey Criswell - Cinema Fromage
Linnea Quigley and her lipstick in Night of the Demons! Maybe not an erotic scene in the traditional sense but as a fourteen year old boy at the time, that was pretty mind blowing!
(Still holds up at 32 even!)
YES! Definitely the scene from Basket Case when the lumpy-freak-armpit-twin is getting it ON with his disconjoined twin brother’s hot lady. I never knew a woman’s breast could be handled in such a way until I saw that film. Thank you, Basket Case, thank you.
I’m sorry I brought it up. If you want to add to this orgy of terror, please include your own thoughts in the comments below.
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:28 pm
I’d say pretty much any scene from “Lifeforce” with Mathilda May…
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Wow. Stacie - that was hot… are you single? You have the right kind of sarcasm this mad pulp bastard is lookin’ for…
;D
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Sarcasm?
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:42 pm
No votes for Orgy of the Dead?!? What’s hotter than plastic skeletons, bad wigs, topless girls in cheap costumes and, er, Criswell?
February 3rd, 2007 at 2:47 am
What are you talking about? Paul mentioned Orgy of the Dead. I think the two of you are in cahoots! There’s no way I’m letting an Ed Wood, Jr. renaissance happen on my watch.
February 3rd, 2007 at 6:07 am
anything in The Beast (La Bête, 1975)… I know, it’s disgusting… but whatever. For non-horror I like the shower scenes in Porky’s.
February 4th, 2007 at 5:05 am
Whoops, guess it doesn’t quite have the intended meaning when ya leave out “other.” Meant to say “no other votes for Orgy of the Dead.”
On a not-poking-fun-at-Paul-note, how about Vampyres?
February 4th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Hee hee…I swear, every time I’m talking to a guy, I can feel his eyes drifting to my sarcasm.
Pfft! Men!
February 4th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Odd, no mention of Udo Kier’s infamous “gall bladder” scene from Flesh for Frankenstein. :)
Seriously, though, I’d second Curt’s nomination of Vampyres. Also, while many of Jean Rollin’s scenes are tepid (described charitably), there are some scenes from Fascination…
February 4th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Not exactly a ’scene’ but Adrianne Barbeau’s voice as Stevie Wayne in “The Fog” (original version)…
Also anywhere where you have the vulnerability of a character that is nude, and the “evil” thing is nearby, that can be very erotic
February 5th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Stacie, it’s hard to ignore your sarcasm, the way you flaunt it about and all!
February 5th, 2007 at 10:27 am
What is the deal with lack of NUDE GRAVEYARD DANCING from “Return of the Living Dead”?
February 5th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Trash’s nude dancing from Return of the Living Dead nearly made it as the image for the post, but I couldn’t find any that really worked when cropped.
February 5th, 2007 at 11:53 am
C’mon guys. Women have more to offer than just their sarcasm. I mean, what about their bodies? Sheesh.
There’s a pretty hot scene in “Wendigo.” Or how about the sex scene in the original “Amityville Horror” - Margot Kidder with a flower in her hair and leg warmers. That set my teen blood a’boiling.
February 6th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
I totally forgot to mention that climactic sex scene in POSSESSION!! D’oh!
April 5th, 2007 at 2:31 am
My favorite would probably be the gigantic worm scene from Galaxy of Terror.. :D