Fetish or fear? the overuse of sexual themes in horror media.

horror media has always had a heavy focus on violence, or more specifically violence against women. Many male horror directors and authors often include violently sexual themes often showcasing abuse against women. 

While gore and violence is to be expected in horror movies, the common occurrence of non consensual sexual themes and violence starts to beg the question if this is done purely for shock value or rather if its a fetish of the creator, finding ways to express it through his media. 

If done because of the former rather then the latter it suggests a lack of actual care for the art for or media they make. Its no longer creative and simply doesn't have the shock to it that it may have held thirty years ago. Its a lazy way to try and fulfill the purpose of horror, to make people uncomfortable. 

I find that truely horrorfying media often dosent have any sexual themes, as the artist or director often have more respect for the genre then those who do. To make it scary without the sexual themes often requires real creativity. 

Some of the most iconic horror movies off the top of the head would be the blob. No sexual violence in anyway and it still finds a way to be an engaging horror movie. 

To have a horror movie so heavily based on sexual violence is a cheap cop out. To be so lazy when creating horror media which is such a vast genre. You can go so far in any direction with horror and yet they continue to restrict themselves to sexual violence. When it becomes this much of a problem it becomes apparent that many creators dont care about the content they create but rather as a way to express their own fetishes under the guize of horror.