The best adventure movies are often blockbusters that captivated entire generations with their exciting stories, from Raiders of the Lost Ark to Star Wars.

The best body horror films explore gore and human transformation on levels utterly alien to other types of films, resulting in unforgettable stories.

Many academically minded types have written at great length and with fascinating eloquence on the connection between sex and death in horror movies. We'll cut right to the chase, offering up some of the best and most potent examples of sexuality in the horror-movie genre.

If cinema is like dreaming with our eyes open, then horror movies could rightly be viewed as waking nightmares: an opportunity to confront our unconscious fears directly — most often as entertainment,