Whatever you’re into—be it a female ghost or a male ghost—you get hot naked men in this double feature, landing both on the stud stalking page. Awesome.
SUCCUBUS (2024)
This little indie horror is impressively effective, and it feels like it’s broken into two very distinct parts—a tension-building, slow burn first half, and then a trippy, horror and sex loaded fever dream in the second half. Scrumptious. However, it does tend to run a little long, especially the first part.
The main guy who recently separated from his wife considers online dating, and his sexy, macho friend tries to coach him.
The main guy also chats with his mother (played by Rosanna Arquette) and his estranged wife. All of it is presented through video chats, which does a great job of establishing how alone the main guy is in his house.
The isolation gets really creepy when he begins video chatting with a mysterious woman online. She has a hot body and is rather seductive, but she also won’t show her face on screen and doesn’t speak at first—only text chats. Chilling.
Slowly but surely, she begins to come out of her shell and claims to be scared and trapped, and she wants him to come see her. Eek!
In the meantime, Ron Perlman plays some sort of doctor who contacts the main guy and warns him to stay away from the mysterious woman.
It truly is an unnerving setup, and it eventually leads to some whacked shit. The main guy sort of teleports through the screen to hook up with the woman, and then the satanic shit hits the fan. It’s weird, it’s erotic, it’s icky, and it’s visually captivating.
In the final act, the film brings the concept of the succubus to the forefront at last, making for a pretty good and disturbing conclusion to this bizarre film. Let’s just say that things aren’t looking up for any of the penises in this movie.
INCUBUS: NEW BEGINNINGS (2025)
This one definitely feels like an indie, almost to the point of looking like a shot-on-video endeavor. The script is all over the place, seasoned actress Dee Wallace appearing in the last fifteen minutes sticks out like a sore thumb, and there are hokey special effects right out of the 80s. But…I was so into it.
A bunch of female friends goes to a lake house to party. They have a gay cook hosting their dinner party, a Chippendale piñata, and a stripper.
The woman who owns the place wants to have it blessed. The priest comes while the women are out canoeing, sees flies swarming around a crucifix, and demonstrates that he has seen The Amityville Horror by getting the fuck out.
Meanwhile, the women are plagued by nightmares and supernatural occurrences. There’s a hot naked dude entering their rooms. There’s an old zombie man with a huge tongue. There’s a scary doll. And there’s a freaky demon crawling on ceilings and shit.
In fact, there are so many creepy things happening that I had no idea what was happening. Either way, it was some tasty visual horror. Not to mention plenty of tasty male nudity.
There’s an outdoor scene between the hot nude incubus guy and what I guess is supposed to be a cop with a gun, and the footage is edited to make it seem like they are face-to-face, but their scenes are shot at totally different times of the day in totally different color lighting.
There’s even a stretch of footage that breaks up and pixelates terribly. You could argue it’s supposed to signify the demon’s evil powers in effect, but you know it was more likely an error in the filming.
The movie runs 73 minutes long, and Dee Wallace shows up as a demonologist at the 57-minute mark, bringing a hint of camp to her character. She easily conjures the demon (awesome), and even more easily exorcises it.
In the end, we see evidence that the incubus did indeed score quite a bit of mortal loving even though we never actually see him have sex with any of the women—in every case, it’s implied.
It’s definitely a different vibe than Succubus, but they both have awesome demons and naked men, so this was a pretty perfect double feature for me at a time when I really don’t want to think when escaping with a horror movie.
