Ill spit on your grave full movie series#

ItвЂ™s in nearly all of his art in some form or another, but no more obviously than this scene from his 1986 cult classic, in which Dennis Hopper as psychopathic Frank Booth indulges a bizarre sexual fetish with the masochistic Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini), which involves huffing nitrous oxide and a kind of вЂњreverse birthвЂќ role-play.

There are probably more interpretations of his surreal images than frames of film that comprise them, but I think IвЂ™ve mapped at least one tiny fragment of the manвЂ™s worldview: he seems simultaneously terrified and attracted to sex. If a director could be singled out for dissecting more of his own mental hangups on film than any other artist, David Lynch would get my vote. It comes out of left field and completely flips the story in the most sudden and nightmarish way possibleвЂ¦ and then we fade to black. Stephen King listed the filmвЂ™s last scene in his horror thesis Danse Macabre as one of the scariest ever committed to film, and I can see why.

Ill spit on your grave full movie series#

Diane KeatonвЂ™s deeply troubled schoolteacher tries to chase away her personal demons through drugs and a series of rough one-night stands, but when she picks up a disturbed man (Tom Berenger) on New YearвЂ™s Eve, she gets far more than she bargained for. This 1977 drama, based on a novel (and a true story), is the least horror-themed film on this list, but the final minutes are among the scariest IвЂ™ve ever witnessed.

It probably goes without saying, but I should point out that thereвЂ™s a few naughty bits on display here, so this post is not entirely work-safe. In horror, itвЂ™s sometimes hard to define these things.

The intercourse in most of these scenes is more or less consensualвЂ¦ or at least within the context of the story. Please note that IвЂ™m trying to avoid scenes depicting overt rape, as that represents a very different kind of monster (in other words, no Evil Dead tree-porking or rape-revenge scenarios like I Spit on Your Grave). Not all of these scenes come from horror films, but they are all unquestionably the stuff of nightmaresвЂ¦ and probably caused many hours of intense therapy among sensitive viewers. In that light, IвЂ™ve selected some significant cinematic examples of physical love taken to its most horrific extremes. Of course, wherever fear lurks, eventually someone will step in to capitalize on itвЂ¦ and no creative medium captures the collective imagination more completely than the movies. As open-minded and progressive as we often pretend to be as a culture, I suspect that, deep down, Americans are still pretty scared of sex вЂ“ and even of ourselves as sexual beings. Whether Hitch made that exact declaration or not, the concept is still disturbing вЂ“ and says a lot about artists, storytellers and audiencesвЂ™ relationship to sex in general. Alfred Hitchcock once delivered a disturbing bit of directorial advice: вЂњFilm your love scenes like murders, and your murders like love scenes.вЂќ Or something like thatвЂ¦ the details are a bit vague.