A sickened moviegoer is just one reaction the director Jason Eisner ("Hobo With a Shotgun") witnessed in response to "L Is for Libido," a segment of "The ABCs of Death," a new anthology of 26 horror shorts, each centered around a different letter of the alphabet and depicting death in grotesque, comic, erotic and head-scratching ways.
It has displays exotic and erotic: charming animal heads as in a children's fairy tale, fantastical collaborations with the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and the graffiti of Stephen Sprouse.
Only after a Decameron of misadventures does it gradually become clear that the book's erotic register is headed for, and convincingly arrives at, the archetypal Girl of all Girls, Mommy.
Desire: 100 of Literatures Sexiest Stories selected by Mariella Frostrup and the Erotic Review, published by Head of Zeus, £25.
He is experienced and competent, always nice to his team and his superiors, but he's half-asleep, secretly writing an erotic novel in his head, while responding to media queries.
The Iranian master's second cinematic field trip, after the considerably more lovable Certified Copy, this Tokyo-set puzzle piece builds a promising head of erotic and intellectual steam between a university-going call girl, her jealous boyfriend and an elderly professorial client, but its truncated ending still strikes a sourly prankish note.
The pictures featured full frontal nude depictions of Bảo Đại and his mistresses, with genitalia clearly visible, including a frame showing a naked blonde performing an erotic dance for the head of state.
In "Caught Up," she balances impossible purity and breathing blasphemy, beautifully taking the religious resonance of the title and subjecting it to a sexual renovation that retains a suggestion of the religious: "my wrists pinned over my head" is certainly erotic, but it also sounds a little like an erotic crucifixion.
Erotic City comes to mind.
A rivetting, erotic, enigmatic movie that, despite pretentious touches, stands head and shoulders above its rivals for the way it captures and criticises swinging London.
