If you are looking for a real 'Freak Fest' then you have to see "Silent Hill." It has been out for a while (released in 2006) and if you missed it the first time around it is well worth the price of a rental. Apparently based on a Video game (but don't hold that fact against the movie) "Silent Hill" is about a young woman who is trying to discover why her adopted daughter sleepwalks and cries out about a place called 'Silent Hill.' When Rose (the mother) finds out there really is such a place, she is determined to take Sharon (her daughter) to this ghost town and try to help her.

Rose has an auto accident just outside Silent Hill and when she wakes Sharon has disappeared. The search for her daughter takes Rose into Purgatory and then to Hell, both of which seem to be located in Silent Hill. And when Rose finally does find Sharon their journey through Hell is only half over.

The special effects in this movie are amazing. If you watch it on a big screen TV in the dark I rather guarantee you will experience goose bumps and hair raising episodes as you never know just what sort of nightmare will be around the next corner. While there is plenty of Horror in this flick, there isn't much erotica, unless you consider a melting, armless, man-shaped thing which spews acid from a hole in its chest onto a female police officer somehow erotic. You figure it out. There is, however, a somewhat dramatic 'witch burning' and plenty of hideously grotesque creatures to whet your appetite, as well as a bizarre twist of an ending.

All in all, "Silent Hill" is a movie worth watching--more than once.

If your taste leans more toward 'Erotic Horror' I have a couple of other movies you should check out. Both of them are older releases and were sleepers when they came out, so few people beyond 'Cult' viewers even know about them.

The first is a 1988 film by Ken Russell which is based on a novel by Bram Stoker. You might expect "The Lair of the White Worm" to be a run of the mill 'B' movie if you judged it only by the box cover, but you would be wrong. This flick stars Hugh Grant (yes, that Hugh Grant), Catherine Oxenberg and Amanda Donohoe as Lady Sylvia. The action takes place in England and revolves around the legend of a great worm, or Werym (a dragon or giant snake), that was killed by an ancestor of Grant, hundreds of years previously.

When a Scot archaeologists unearths a large snake skull on the site of a convent which dated back to Roman times, things become a bit weird. The 'convent' turns out to have been a pagan temple where a giant snake was worshiped by mostly naked females, and there is still a descendant of that cult alive today. This snake lady steals the discovered skull and attempts to revive the cult, using Oxenberg as a human sacrifice to the 'White Worm.'

If you are at all familiar with Ken Russell's movies, you know to expect lots of boobs, fetishism, sexual overtones, phallic symbols and other erotic sights. 'Lair of the White Worm' does not disappoint in that regard. At worst a campy cult film and at best an interesting look at snake cults and humans who transform into snake creatures, "The Lair of the White Worm" is an erotic kick in the butt. If not to be found at your video rental store, try Amazon--it's worth a few extra bucks to own a copy.

And if there wasn't enough erotic horror in the last flick, I have another Ken Russell film for you. This one is the 1986 cult classic, "Gothic," which stars Gabrial Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson and Timothy Spall.

"Gothic" takes the viewer back to the year 1816, where five friends wait out a stormy night in a huge Swiss villa by attempting to write ghost stories. Those present are poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley; Shelley's fiancee Mary Godwin; Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend and doctor, John Polidori.

Wine and laudanum help to loosen the minds and spirits of the guests, not to mention something else. As they gather round the skull of a long dead monk, the friends try to raise its spirit from the grave and are more successful than they realize. This is also the story of how Mary Godwin (soon to be Mary Shelley) came to write her masterpiece of horror, "Frankenstein," during her stay at the villa that summer (Doctor Polidori also wrote one of the first ever Vampire stories that summer, but Shelley's story always outshone his own).

True to form for any Ken Russell film, "Gothic" is filled with erotic symbolism, fetishism and blatant sexuality. There is also horror here, but most of it remains in the minds of the guests, although the viewer is allowed to see much more than perhaps they would like to of what goes on within those minds.

This is a 'must see' movie for erotic horror enthusiasts. Russell does an amazing job with light and shadow, as well using space to impart fear and uneasiness in the viewer. "Gothic" is available on DVD and again, if not at your rental store put out the few extra bucks and buy a copy from Amazon. You won't regret it.