We can’t get enough of steamy thrillers (Picture: AP)
Film fans have been treated to such sights since the release of Amazon Prime Video smash hit Saltburn and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things.
Directed by Promising Young Woman’s Emerald Fennell and starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, and Richard E Grant, Saltburn follows social outcast Oliver Quick (Keoghan) as he is drawn into the magnetic world of fellow Oxford student Felix Catton (Elordi) and his eccentric family.
Just a month after the hit film came to Prime, Poor Things hit cinema screens starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe as medical student Max McCandles becomes the assistant to unorthodox surgeon Godwin Baxter, and soon learns his young ward Bella was brought back from the dead.
Both films have shocked and delighted viewers with their wild and rampant sexual content – with Poor Things having one scene in particular edited for UK audiences.
If the popularity of these films is anything to go by, film audiences love to be challenged by risque, erotic art that blurs the lines of morality – and boy, are there some taboo films out there that paved the way for Saltburn and Poor Things.
Did you love THE graveyard scene, and can’t get enough of Bella’s apple sex? Then we have 10 films you need to watch right away.
Infinity Pool
Take a dip in the infinity pool (Picture: Elevation Pictures)
Diving straight into the weird and wonderful murky depths of cinema, we have last year’s Infinity Pool, directed by Brandon Cronenberg and starring Alexander Skarsgard and Mia Goth.
The film follows James and Em Foster (Skarsgard and Cleopatra Colman) who meet the mysterious and seductive couple Gabi and Alban Bauer (Goth and Jalil Lespert) while holidaying on the island of La Tolqa. After venturing from the resort ground, a fatal accident sees the Fosters pulled into the devilish and hedonistic world of the island’s elite.
Now streaming on NowTV and Sky.
Crash
No, not THAT Crash (Picture: Donata Wenders/Columbia Tri Star/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
If you wondered where Brandon got his wonderfully warped mind from, his father is none other than David Cronenberg who directed 1996’s Crash.
The shocking film sees viewers follow the story of film producer James Ballard, played by James Spader, who survives a devastating car crash. Following the incident, he becomes involved with a group of symphorophilliacs, who are aroused by car crashes.
Now streaming on BFI Player, Arrow, and the Arrow Video channel via Amazon Prime Video.
Excision
Family tensions take a disastrous turn in Excision (Picture: BXR Productions)
In 2012, Richard Bates Jr adapted his 2008 short film Excision into a feature-length movie starring AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, Malcolm McDowell, and John Waters.
Pauline (McCord) is a deeply disturbed young woman who wishes to reconnect with her estranged mother (Lords). To do so, she goes to extreme lengths to gain her approval.
Now available to rent and buy on Amazon Prime Video.
Suitable Flesh
Horror heavyweights Heather Graham and Barbara Crampton join forces in Joe Lynch’s latest work (Picture: Everett/REX/Shutterstock)
2023 was a glorious year for sexy, scary cinema with the release of not only Infinity Pool but Joe Lynch’s Suitable Flesh, adapted from the H.P. Lovecraft novel The Thing on the Doorstep.
Starring Heather Graham, Barbara Crampton, and Judah Lewis, the body-switching horror sees psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby (Graham) become obsessed with helping young patient Asa (Lewis) who she deems is suffering from an extreme personality disorder. However, late one night when she is called to help him, she is led into danger of the occult variety.
Now available to rent and buy via Amazon Prime Video and Sky.
Eyes Wide Shut
Stanley Kubrick created something worlds away from his usual work in Eyes Wide Shut (Picture: Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
Stanley Kubrick is renowned for his work on A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, as well as the psychosexual gem Eyes Wide Shut.
Released in 1999, the film sees Dr Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) join an underground sex group after discovering his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman) had an affair.
Now available to rent and buy via Amazon Prime Video, Sky, and Apple TV.
The Hunger
Vampires have been associated with sex long before the modern boom we see today (Picture: MGM/Everett/REX/Shutterstock)
Vampire films have long been considered highly sexual, and the same can be said of Tony Scott’s 1983 film The Hunger.
Starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon, the film, based on the 1981 novel of the same name, sees a dangerous love triangle form between beautiful vampire Miriam Blaylock (Deneuve), her cellist companion John Blaylock (Bowie), and gerontologist Sarah Roberts (Sarandon).
Now available to rent and buy via Amazon Prime Video, Sky, and Apple TV.
Stoker
Nicole Kidman appears on the list once more (Picture: Fox Searchlight Pictures/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
Park Chan-wook is one of Korea’s most prominent filmmakers, known for the likes of Oldboy, Decision To Leave, Thirst, and The Handmaiden. But one of his most exciting works is his English-language debut Stoker.
The film – featuring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, and Mia Wasikowski – tells the story of India Stoker (Wasikowska) whose life comes apart when her father suddenly dies and her mysterious uncle Charlie (Goode) comes to live with her and her unstable mother Evelyn (Kidman). India soon becomes infatuated with Charlie, despite his clear ulterior motives toward his niece.
Now available to stream on Disney Plus.
Society
Society casts a terrifying gaze on the insidious nature of family secrets (Picture: Society Prods/Wild Street/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
Like Saltburn, 1992’s Society directed by Brian Yuzna takes us into the secret world of the elite with plenty of twists and turns.
Its plot follows Beverly Hills teenager Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) who begins to suspect that his wealthy family and friends are part of a gruesome cult for the social elite who engage in murderous orgies – but the truth, somehow, is far worse.
Now streaming on BFI Player, Arrow, and the Arrow Video channel via Amazon Prime Video.
Nekromantik
Our final entry is the most controversial film on the list, maybe in the history of cinema (Picture: Manfred Jelinski)
This last film is certainly not for the faint-hearted, so be warned.
Nekromantik, directed by Jörg Buttgereit, is a German exploitation horror film that was so controversial it found itself banned in many countries but also gained cult status among film fans.
Why? The film tackles arguably the ultimate taboo in our society as viewers follow troubled street cleaner Robert Schmadtke (Bernd Daktari Lorenz) who begins to explore his interest in necrophilia alongside his wife Betty (Beatrice Manowski). He decides to bring home a corpse that he finds for his wife, but it soon becomes apparent she prefers the corpse to her husband. Yes, really.
Now streaming on Shudder, Arrow, and the Shudder and Arrow Video channels via Amazon Prime Video.
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