Love lies bleeding: 15 horror movies that are perfect for Valentine’s Day
If you dare to look, romance and sex appeal await in films like Bones And All, Crimson Peak, and Possession
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Everyone celebrates Valentine’s Day in their own way, and sometimes that way can be hiding in their room and watching movies until all the roses and pink hearts pass. For horror fans, whether they’re coupled up or not, the holiday (like virtually every holiday) is an opportunity to delve into seasonally appropriate scary movies.
But Valentine’s Day horror is not just about slaughtering innocent lovers caught alone in cars. Valentine’s Day horror, and romantic horror in general, is a broad subgenre with lots of flavors to sample, giving you the chance to customize your V-Day viewing as much as you like. So, in honor of this year’s upcoming Valentine’s Day, here are 15 horror films, in alphabetical order, that are perfect for the holiday. Pop open a box of chocolates and enjoy. If you dare.
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“Liv Tyler’s Kristen has just rejected her boyfriend James’ (Scott Speedman) marriage proposal”
Well, what a perfect Valentine’s Day movie!
Chris Sarandon’s seduction of Marcy Darcy in Fright Night is far more romantic than anything in BS Dracula.
Egregious omission on Candyman. God himself couldn’t convince me that movie was scary, that was a romance.
Bone and All was so incredibly overrated. I’m down with the rest of this list though. Especially Mandy.
I’d be interested in an updated version of Misery that followed the book…The sledgehammer was a sick twist but using the ax to remove the foot was WAY more interesting!
I think that would have been too bleak, even for Misery. At least with the “hobbling” there’s the hope of healing.
Nice list! Can’t wait for Lisa Frankenstein.
Confusing headline since the upcoming LOVE LIES BLEEDING isn’t a horror movie. Get your synergy right, kids
Re: The Strangers (*spoilers, sort of*)I get why it is included on this list, but I disagree. First off, that movie is relentlessly bleak. Second, I don’t think it has much to say about the power of couples or whatever. The main characters are clearly not on the same page as a result of the failed proposal and the reaction to the events that unfold during the night are fairly in line with human beings. Both of them are just trying to survive and get out – they don’t even really work together to affect that. It does not have much to say what a couple will go through or what they will endure – it has a lot to say about people up against unfortunate circumstances seldom have a chance.