by William Dean
(10/15/03)
Stealthily it approaches, drool dripping, senses sharpened, libido twitching and straining at the dubious leash. Soon it will pounce from the darkness -- Halloween!
In keeping with our "otherly" theme this month, consider how many references to erotic encounters with more-than-human beings populate your memory. The entertainment media -- from the earliest days of scary shadows on cave walls to the current horror flicks at your local theater -- have known that spooky can be exciting; add the extra flavor of sexy goings-on and you've got a brightly burning flame to ignite the fertile imagination and send shivers and goosebumps to places we like to have cuddled, kissed, licked, sucked, and probed. Even by monstrous creatures, randy robots, and spectral things from the ethereal plane.
Some forty years ago, adolescents got a major boost to their quivering libidos when filmmaker Roger Corman added sex and suggestiveness to the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Soon arch-spookmeister Vincent Price was ogling busty damsels in distress on the big screen in ways that Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff could have only in their dreams. Not to be outdone, Hammer Films of England resurrected the mighty Dracula story, the stodgy Frankenstein monster tale, the werewolf, and yes, even the mummy to menace (in Technicolor and Wide-Screen!) even bustier babes, showing not-quite-nipples, in mostly torn costumes to titillate movie audiences.
Science Fiction, too, was plumbed for canny plots, and we saw shy efforts like I Married A Monster From Outer Space and promiscuously-promising human-made computers and robots checking out the local hotties for a little romp in the sack in films such as Demon Seed, Android, Galaxina, and Cherry 2000.
I suspect -- despite the various efforts of Legions of Decency -- we all harbor lurid, possibly nightmarish, wonderings about Other Worldies and their libidos. Does Frankenstein's monster want to fuck? Mel Brooks thought so and we laughed at Young Frankenstein's antics about the monster with the "enormous schwanschticker." As for Dracula and his minions, we just knew were getting plenty of action as befitted suckers and night flyers.
Occasionally, as in the 1981 low budget film, The Incubus, creatures from Hell emerge to make a little whoopee. Starring, of all people, William Shatner, with dialogue in Esperanto (subtitles in English), this demonic flick is strangely interesting and suspenseful. Even odder is the fact that its particular seductive spirit is a succubus, not an incubus, but why quibble? Incubae and succubae are supposedly interchangeable gender-wise anyway. Lucky old demons, they don't even need, apparently, to visit their local clinic to effect a sex change.
Mr. Scratch, himself, sometimes makes a sexy appearance, with more on his satanic mind than corrupting politicians or taking over the world. In Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby, for example, he does the dirty deed with Mia Farrow so that he can become a daddy.
Folks deep in the world of Japanese anime and hentai are familiar with the sex-with-demons routine. La Blue Girl, to cite just one, is what aficianados consider the first real hentai film that introduced the world to the exotic concept of tentacle sex and the plentiful scenes of tying a girl up and fucking her with an object so big it could be mistaken for a Ford Escort. La Blue Girl also introduced everyone to the fact that demons are the most sex-crazed things in the world, and all of them seem to have penis-like tentacles on every part of their body. Creative demons that they are, they find a use for every one of them, too.
Surely, lots of folks will be haunting their local fetish ball and Halloween party, but others may prefer the quieter, more private vicinity of home: maybe lying around nude or scantily-costumed, imbibing their favorite recreational items, and letting their erotic imagination slink, skulk, and stalk that handy sexual partner, fuck-buddy, or lover as the home entertainment screen flickers with a spooky movie or two. Check out some of the suggestions from the sidebar or pick your own favorites. I have no doubt all the gasps on Halloween won't be frigid from fright.
