Terror Teaser and a Repost

The Terror Teaser

This October, watch this spot for some peculiar, possibly perilous, and probably possessed posts for Spooooooookyyyyyyy Seeeeeeeeasooooon 2024. My Reign of Terror begins next week with my first love, music, so be sure to tune in* for your Halloween decorating soundtrack.

*see what I did there?

The Repost

Here's an entry from my 2013 series, Aphrodisiacs from A to Z, which touched on the various things believed to rev up folks' motors in the sex-ay department. This was my H entry, Horror Movies, and may have* some tweaks, as well as new nonsense sprinkled in here and there.

*it definitely does

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Horror movies have been popular from the beginning of cinematic history, in large part pushed by young Hollywood for their very commercial scariness. Why so commercial? They reckoned fellas would take their gals to the local drive-in, so the chicks could get spooked right into their letterman-jacket-clad arms, and voila—sexy-fun good times in your dad's Buick. Well, OK, there's a bit of truth to the fact that getting freaked out makes you seek comfort, but sexual healing? Really?

Yes, in actual fact. Really.

Y U SO SEX-AY?
In the 70s, some weirdos thought to conduct an experiment on poor unsuspecting folk, to see if fear-induced physiological arousal could be misattributed as sexual desire. (Ed. Like, who the hell does this kinda thing, if not weirdos?) And damned if they weren't right. The rapid heart rates and breathing caused by the fear-inspiring stimulants seem to have been mistaken for sexual interest in the (previously unknown to them) chicks tossed in their paths during the scary incident, whom they later asked out for dates! And that kinda jazz has worked on gals and guys.

OK, I'll buy that for a dollar. But here's my own personal take on this: I dig horror flicks, but liberally mixed with humor. If it's a truly frightening film, any fella wanting to "comfort" me had better be sure we watch it in the morning so I've got time to get the sexy-fun-good-times sorted out and enough time to get the movie outta my head, else I ain't sleepin' that night. And if I ain't sleepin', neither is he.

Hmmm...that could be turned to our mutual advantage, couldn't it? (Ed. Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, etc.)

RECIPES
This gets a bit tricky, as tastes for horror and sexy vary widely. So I can only go with what has been scary/sexy for me. (Ed. It's vampires, and I don't care who knows, all right? So judgy, gosh!) If you'd like to share in the comments, I'm totally interested in learning what's proved scary/sexy for you.

• Dracula (1979) Look, the movie sucks, OK? (Geddit, geddit?) The cats in command fornicated liberally with the story on which it's based, turned Lucy into Mina and vice versa, and just WHY??? Regardless, Frank Langella's hot as hell in this, lawdhammercy!

• Fright Night (1985) Chris Sarandon is the new vampire next door, Jerry Dandrige, and he's got dance moves for days nights.

• Dracula 2000 (2000) I know I'm one of the few folks turned on by this flick, on any level, but damn: Gerry Butler! Gerry Butler sexing some chick up so fine they be floatin' up to the ceiling during the sexing!!!!! (Ed. I couldn't find a clip of THAT scene, but the ones here immediately precede it.)

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Source

Here's a wee homage to the lust-inducing genre by, appropriately enough,

The Bollock Brothers.