Where's the Line between Sexy and Porny?

So I'm writing this book, right? And it's probably urban fantasy, but not in a strong heroine fights the good fight against evil kind of way. More like it's magical historically religious type creatures living in polite contemporary society. My thing is this, since it has incubi and succubi, I figure I'm going to go balls out sexual with it. Lots of fetishes. Bondage. A fair amount of bodily fluids are spilled upon the fertile ground, let's put it that way.

I was beginning to think that the story was bordering on porn, with some of the medical fetish stuff I had planned. And then I saw this...



Now. Before you think I've lost my mind, let me assure you. I've got no sexualizing paralysis or amputations (well there may be some limb removal, but not in an erotic context). But what I do want to capture is the foreign quality of what might turn a demon on. So I'm going on a sicko bender this weekend. I'm planning on picking up Quid Pro Quo, Crash (Cronenberg), Dead Ringers and Jacob's Ladder.

Can anyone else think of a film that was unabashedly sexual in a dark and disturbing way?

Comments

Anonymous said…
Dead Ringers is really really disturbing. Have you seen Boxing Helena? I don't think I made it through the entire film primarily because it was not a very good film, but it might fit in with what you are looking for...
Anonymous said…
Boxing Helena! That's what I thought of too. Creepy, very creepy. And no, not very good but disturbing.
Anonymous said…
Me too first thing "Boxing Helena...
wow
Culleen
Anonymous said…
Kissed. Because nothing's sexier than a corpse.
Anonymous said…
Uhhh. I think I'm still disturbed by the trailer. Damn. I guess I should pay more attention to independent films. Will you fill us in on those movies.

*shudder*
Anonymous said…
Evil Dead has a lovely scene with a girl and a tree root.
Anonymous said…
Tree root? OUCH! One word -- Splinters!

I don't know where to draw the line, Mark. I wrote my UF with very sexual/violent vampires. Lots of sex and violence. Then I started to read other UF and realized NO ONE HAD ANY SEX in them. Maybe it was just the writers I chose to read. So now I am doubting if I can ever sell my novel. Like I said, no concept of lines here.

Tom Gallier
Anonymous said…
ahhhhhhhh Sorry Mark I got nothing!
I have a strict policy if the commercial creeps me out.... I don't watch the movie.

I know ... such a whimp.. :O)
Anonymous said…
Feed (2005). A man "kept" and fed obese women, and acted out his own....um...yeah.

I don't know why I watched it (okay, that's a lie, the lead was played by yummy Alex O'Loughlin), but I needed Brain Bleach afterward.
Anonymous said…
Thanks Kelly!!!

That sounds like the winner.
Anonymous said…
What about 'Teeth' ?

The one with the teeth in the vajayjay? I don't know if it's a fetish movie but I think it'd be right up your alley (har har) either way.

(It's available under our Movies On Demand on Cable so you shouldn't have too hard of a time finding it)
Anonymous said…
Ichi the Killer. So very wrong, and you will only ever need to see it once.

If, after watching it, you think it's a fluke and Takashi Miike couldn't get any more disturbing, then go out and find Imprint, the piecce he did for Masters of Horror.

As with Ichi, you will only ever need to see this once.

Japan is just a wonderful source for this kind of stuff. You should also check out an anthology called Rampo Noir. It has a Meat Mother in it, how can you not see it?

There you go, triple feature waiting to happen. Enjoy.

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