With these, you can take the title of this post pretty seriously.
Enjoy a more macabre side of love and romance with these dark films and books!
Here are the films:
Starring Timothée Chalamet (Lee) and Taylor Russell (Maren), this tasty movie morsel reflects on the challenges of being a young-and-in-love cannibal on the road. Wanderlust and bloodlust combine as outsider-lovers navigate their need to consume human flesh to survive. Although its subject matter may be hard to stomach, Bones and All proves a deeply romantic and thought-provoking treat.
Megan Fox stars as Emma in S.K. Dale’s 2021 film, Til Death, a film about a woman struggling in an abusive marriage. After falling for another man, she is forced to navigate her husband’s gruesome revenge plan. This fast-paced horror-thriller comments on the difficulty of leaving a toxic relationship and involves creative reuse of an old wedding dress.
Florence Pugh (Dani) and Jack Reynor (Christian) play a couple on the verge of breakup in writer-director Ari Astor’s 2019 film, Midsommar. Dani has suffered a horrific tragedy and is struggling to pick up the pieces when she travels with Christian and his friends to a rural Swedish village during a mid-summer festival. The villager’s unusual traditions force Dani to confront the reality of her deteriorating relationship while offering inspiring—and terrifying—opportunities for her to start anew.
Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner star in Carl Reiner’s 1983 tale of romance-gone-wrong. Martin plays a famous and arrogant brain surgeon, Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, and Turner is his femme fatale, Dolores. This macabre comedy is part retelling of Rebecca, part retelling of Frankenstein, and all parts insane—in the best possible way.
Writer-director Anna Biller’s dark yet humorous 2016 film, The Love Witch, tells the story of Elaine Parks (Samantha Robinson), a modern-day witch on a relatable quest in search of love. She attempts to use her powers to make men fall in love with her, but her spells often conjure tragedy.
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s 2014 film, Spring, is a dark love story about a young man, Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci), who travels to Italy and falls for an unusual local woman, Louise (Nadia Hilker). It soon becomes apparent that the mysterious Louise is keeping her true identity a secret.
Tilda Swinton (Eve) and Tom Hiddleston (Adam) play centuries-old vampire lovers in Jim Jarmusch’s 2013 film, Only Lovers Left Alive. In this moody horror-romance, Adam is a musician who has grown despondent and suicidal. His life is thrown into disarray with the arrival of Eve’s younger sister. The vampires must deal with the challenges posed by their blood-thirsty lives.
George Mihalka’s 1981 Valentine’s Day slasher takes place in a Canadian mining town. The town reinstates an annual Valentine’s Dance despite clear warnings not to proceed. Brutal killings commence, motivated by a decades-old tragedy.
Here are the books:
An Inquiry into Love and Death by Simone St. James
After her ghost-hunting uncle Toby dies, Oxford student Jillian must drive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings. Almost immediately, terrifying events convince Jillian that an angry spirit is trying to enter the house. Is it Walking John, the two-hundred-year-old ghost that haunts the bay? And who besides the ghost is roaming the local woods at night? If Toby uncovered something sinister, was his death really an accident? The arrival of handsome Scotland Yard inspector Drew Merriken leaves Jillian with more questions than answers and the added complication of a powerful mutual attraction.
Property of a Lady by Sarah Rayne
A house with a sinister past – and a grisly power - When Michael Flint is asked by American friends to look over an old Shropshire house they have unexpectedly inherited, he is reluctant to leave the quiet of his Oxford study. But when he sees Charect House, its uncanny echoes from the past fascinate him – even though it has such a sinister reputation that no one has lived there for almost a century. But it’s not until Michael meets the young widow, Nell West, that the menace within the house wakes . . .
Staked by J.F. Lewis
Eric's got issues. He has short-term and long-term memory problems; he can't remember who he ate for dinner yesterday, much less how he became a vampire in the first place. His best friend, Roger, is souring on the strip club he and Eric own together, and his girlfriend, Tabitha, keeps pressuring him to turn her so she can join him in undeath. It's almost enough to put a Vlad off his appetite. Almost. All Eric wants to do is run his strip club, drink a little blood, and be left alone. Instead, he must survive car crashes, enchanted bullets, sunlight, sex magic, and werewolves on ice—not to mention his own nasty temper and forgetfulness.
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror! It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father. So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic. Just for a little while. But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed.... 'Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent struggling to stay alive....'
The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller
A young widow restores a dilapidated mansion with the assistance of a charming, eccentric genius, only to find the house is full of dangerous secrets in this effervescent Gilded Age debut novel.
In Warm Bodies, Isaac Marion’s New York Times bestselling novel that inspired a major film, a zombie returns to humanity through an unlikely encounter with love.
Minion by L.A. Banks
All Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. Now she is a Spoken Word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons―predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. But Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires have been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music. Damali soon discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire she has ever met, and this seductive beast is coming for her next.
Lothaire by Kresley Cole
Driven by his insatiable need for revenge, Lothaire, the Lore’s most ruthless vampire, plots to seize the Horde’s crown by offering up the soul of his lovely new captive, Elizabeth Peirce. Yet the young human soon tempts him beyond reason. In one month, Lothaire must choose between a millennia-old blood vendetta and his irresistible prisoner. Will he succumb to the miseries of his past...or risk everything for a future with her?
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