American Psycho

Valentine's Day -- and movies like Fifty Shades of Grey -- puts everyone into a romantic mood, and that certainly includes fans of horror movies. Naturally enough, thinking about romance often leads to more intimate times for adults, and such feelings are occasionally captured in risk-taking movies by filmmakers who are willing to blur the lines between sensuality and outright terror.

 

American Psycho (2000)

Five years before he became Batman, Christian Bale became a serial killer. Patrick Bateman is a seriously sexy and successful Wall Street businessman, but he also harbors some very dark secrets that prove fatal to certain people in very bloody ways. In this clip, he lays a trap for his secretary (Chloe Sevigny).

 

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

You may need to keep a glass of cold water nearby -- to keep yourself from overheating-- for this passionate clip, as Dracula (Gary Oldman) offers himself up to his longtime love Mina (Winona Ryder). What a way to go!

 

Angel Heart (1987)

Notorious for a sweaty sex scene featuring Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet (known at the time for her role in TV's The Cosby Show), the movie as a whole proves to be a palpably sensual and haunting detective story. The first scene between the two stars teases at the relationship to come.

 

Videodrome (1983)

A very odd promotional clip makes David Cronenberg's very odd movie look almost like a sci-fi video game, yet it's anything but that. Instead, it's a transgressive, transfixing illumination of how technology affects mankind, channeled chiefly through the transformation of James Woods from a cheesy cable programmer into something else entirely, a terrifying, sexualized vision of the future.

 

The Hunger (1983)

The narration in the trailer is far more straightforward than anything in the movie, which is dreamy and unsettling as it explores the intersection between vampires and sex. With evocative performances by Susan Sarandon, Catherine Deneuve, and David Bowie, this is a very adult experience.

 

Cat People (1982)

Billed as "an erotic fantasy," director Paul Schrader's followup to American Gigolo is a very loose remake of the 1942 original, borrowing some of the imagery and story ideas, and then drenching them with sexuality, pushing everything in a more horrifying, yet sensual direction.