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Theme: Necrophilia

Necrophilia is the sexual attraction to corpses. Taboo (not to mention criminal) as the subject might be, it is one that turns up with some recurrence in genre cinema. Some films are brave enough to dive full-on into depicting such as a Sexual Fetish. These works are often uncompromising and usually end up mired in Censorship Controversies as a result.

In other works, necrophilia is one of a panoply of taboos delved into by characters pushing an envelope. It is sometimes practiced by Serial Killers, including real-life figures such as Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer and Reginald Christie.

In other films, it is something that exists as a Bad Taste joke. There are also peculiarly a handful of films about sex with zombies.


10 Rillington Place (1971)

17 November 20106 October 2019

Rating: ★★★★

True-Life Serial Killer

Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy Geeson, Pat Heywood, …
Category: Horror

Ab-Normal Beauty (2004)

3 November 200728 May 2019

Rating: ★★★

Girl’s Fetish with Death

Director: Oxide Pang
Actors: Race Wong, Rosanne Wong, Anson Leung, Michelle Mee
Category: Horror

Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein (1973)

3 June 199911 September 2019

Rating: ★★★

Splatter Frankenstein

Director: Paul Morrissey
Actors: Udo Kier, Monique Van Vooren, Jose Dallesandro, Arno Juerging, …
Category: Horror

Blue Holocaust (1979)

12 March 20198 September 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Man’s Necrophiliac Obsession

Director: Joe D'Amato
Actors: Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale
Category: Horror

Child of God (2013)

8 December 20149 April 2021

Rating: ★★★

Necrophile Serial Killer

Director: James Franco
Actors: Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Brian Lally
Category: Horror

Deadgirl (2008)

26 September 201830 April 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Necrophilia with an Imprisoned Zombie Girl

Director: Gadi Harel, Marcel Sarmiento
Actors: Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Nolan Gerard Funk, Michael Bowen, …
Category: Horror

Deranged (1974)

11 April 20051 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★

True Life Necrophile Ed Gein Biopic

Director: Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby
Actors: Roberts Blossom, Leslie Carlson
Category: Horror

Dracula Exotica (1980)

26 June 201531 August 2020

Rating: ★★

Dracula Porn Film

Director: Shaun Costello
Actors: Jamie Gillis, Samantha Fox
Category: Horror

High Tension (2003)

5 August 200518 March 2020

Rating: ★★½

French Backwoods Brutality

Director: Alexandre Aja
Actors: Cecile De France, Maiwenn Le Besco, Philippe Nahon, Oana Pellea
Category: Horror

Kissed (1996)

31 December 199628 October 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Necrophilia

Director: Lynne Stopkewich
Actors: Molly Parker, Peter Outerbridge, Jay Brazeau, Natasha Morley, …
Category: Horror

L.A. Zombie (2010)

12 October 201010 February 2019

Rating: ★★

Gay Pornographic Zombie Film

Director: Bruce LaBruce
Actors: Francois Sagat, Francesco D'Macho, Adam Kilian, Erik Rhodes, …
Category: Horror

Macabre (1980)

11 January 200012 May 2022

Rating: ★★★

Necrophilia

Director: Lamberto Bava
Actors: Bernice Stegers, Stanko Molnar, Veronica Zinny
Category: Horror

Mortuary Academy (1988)

3 June 200526 April 2019

Rating: ★★

Bad Taste Mortuary Comedy

Director: Michael Schroeder
Actors: Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Perry Lang, Christopher Atkins, …
Category: Horror

Necromentia (2009)

29 May 201327 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Hallucinations, Fetish and Gateways to Hell

Director: Pearry Teo
Actors: Chad Grimes, Santiago Craig, Layton Matthews
Category: Horror

NEKRomantik (1987)

26 June 199926 October 2021

Rating: ★★★★½

Necrophilia

Director: Jörg Buttgereit
Actors: Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice M.
Category: Horror

NEKRomantik 2 (1991)

3 July 19994 October 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Necrophilia

Director: Jörg Buttgereit
Actors: Monika M., Mark Reeder
Category: Horror

The Neon Demon (2016)

3 July 20161 July 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Horror Film in the L.A. Modelling World

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Actors: Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Karl Glusman, Bella Heathcoate, …
Category: Horror

Night of Something Strange (2016)

18 February 201930 March 2022

Rating: ★★★

Zombie-Creating Sexually Transmitted Disease

Director: Jonathan Straiton
Actors: Rebecca C. Kasek, Trey Harrison, Wayne W. Johnson, Tori-Ann Gamble, …
Category: Horror

Psyched by the 4D Witch (A Tale of Demonology) (1972)

7 May 200230 August 2018

Rating: 0­

Sex and Witchcraft

Director: Victor Luminera
Actors: Margo, Esoterica, Tom Yerian
Category: Horror

Rampo Noir (2005)

23 September 200727 June 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Japanese Horror Anthology

Director: Suguru Takeuchi, Akio Jissoji, Hisayasu Sato, Atsushi Kaneko
Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Hiroki Narimiya, Yuuko Daike, Chisako Hara, …
Category: Horror

Rift (2011)

26 January 201630 August 2018

Rating: 0­

Haunted Apartment Building

Director: LazRael Lison
Actors: Darcy Fowers, Megan Lynam, Ali Costello, Cory Pearman, …
Category: Horror

A Serbian Film (2010)

3 May 201111 March 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Snuff Filmmaking

Director: Srdjan Spasojevic
Category: Horror

The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968)

7 June 201630 June 2021

Rating: ★★

Horror Anthology

Director: Jose Mojica Marins
Actors: Jose Mojica Marins
Category: Horror

Visitor Q (2001)

21 March 201020 November 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Catalogue of Perversions/Mysterious Visitor/Black Comedy

Director: Takashi Miike
Category: Horror

We Are the Flesh (2016)

27 October 201629 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Catalogue of Depravities

Director: Emiliano Rocha Minter
Category: Horror

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