Are there (good) low-to-no-Gore/Sex Horror Movies?

[Grinner]

Hey, has anyone suggested Slingblade?

[Eldan]

Alien doesn't rely on jump scares and mutilation porn at all. Completely different type of movie.

I seem to recall at least one jump scare and, as previously mentioned, while there isn't really any mutilation porn, as you call it, there is still one very gory scene.

[veti]

I don't know what you think sex is, but neither Deliverance nor The Wicker Man is "low-sex."

My memory may have been misleading me about Deliverance. The Wicker Man, apparently, comes in different editions; the one I saw has lots of suggestiveness and undercurrents, but no actual sex.

[Kitten Champion]

I just finished watching The Host, a 2006 film directed by Joon-ho Bong who did the recent Snowpiercer. It's a bit more comedic in tone and certainly strange compared to most horror films, but it has some good scares and there's actual tension about the fate of the characters since it's not the usual line-up of cliched soon-to-be-dead douchebags whose deaths seem perfunctory much less unsurprising that one would expect.

Not much gore at all as death is more suggested than shown, and there's no sex nor a romantic subplot of any kind.

[Verte]

I agree that neither Deliverance nor The Wicker Man are low sex. Spoilers below.

Spoiler: Deliverance

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Deliverance has an infamous rape scene. If someone doesn't want to mix sex and horror because it's triggering, watching Deliverance would probably be unwise.

Spoiler: The Wicker Man

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The Wicker Man has a bunch of sex or sexual things in it. There is a jar of foreskins in a shop, there's a naked woman dancing and singing to seduce the leading man, there are frolicking naked people, there's an orgy in one scene...it's a movie about human sacrifice and sex, really.

I'd forgotten about The Host - that was a monster movie that actually was really suspenseful, and yeah, you actually care about the characters. I do recall thinking that it would have more impact if I knew more about South Korean politics (note that this isn't a request to talk about that verboten topic on the boards).

To me, a big part of the horror genre is that the characters are afraid of something that isn't easily quantified or defined, and that the movie is filmed in such a way that the viewer feels what they feel. Jaws doesn't really qualify to me because the characters know what the shark is and the audience knows what it is. Nor do the characters question themselves. It is a really suspenseful movie though, so if you're looking for suspense, it fits. Jurassic Park doesn't fit for the same reason. Tremors doesn't fit because it is filmed more like an action movie - you don't really feel any of the characters' fear.

As far as Hitchcock is concerned, I might consider The Birds or Psycho to be horror, but not the rest I've seen, such as Vertigo, Rear Window, or Dial M for Murder.

[HandofShadows]

Spoiler: The Wicker Man

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The Wicker Man has a bunch of sex or sexual things in it. There is a jar of foreskins in a shop, there's a naked woman dancing and singing to seduce the leading man, there are frolicking naked people, there's an orgy in one scene...it's a movie about human sacrifice and sex, really.

Which Wicker Man. The Real movie from 1973 that stared Edward Woodward? Or the thing that stole it's name that had Nick Cage in it from 2006? A HUGE difference in quality there.

[Verte]

I assumed that the 1973 version was the one being talked about.

[Zrak]

The post to which I was responding specifically referred to the 1973 version.