They can be funny, they can be intense, they can be romantic. They can involve puppets, or multiple people, or pools. Cinema has been around for more than a century, and in that time, it has produced some truly insane sex scenes, many of which include Tom Cruise or Patrick Swayze, for no particular reason. Here, a few that out-crazy the rest.
GONE GIRL
Released: 2014
Directed by: David Fincher
Actors: Rosamund Pike and Neil Patrick Harris
Fun fact: Pike practiced this sex scene using a Dora the Explorer doll. She also requested that she and Harris spend two hours alone on set preparing.
EYES WIDE SHUT
Released: 1999
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise
Fun fact: Kubrick died six days after showing the first cut of the film to Cruise, Kidman, and studio executives.
GHOST
Released: 1990
Directed by: Jerry Zucker
Actors: Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore
Fun fact: Moore secured her role because she could cry on command from both eyes. Swayze was cast after the writer saw him cry over his father in an interview.
WILD THINGS
Released: 1998
Directed by: John McNaughton
Actors: Denise Richards, Matt Dillon, and Neve Campbell
Fun fact: The crew found a dead body before filming a river scene. The police simply anchored the corpse to the shore out of site until filming was completed.
Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN
Released: 2001
Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón
Actors: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Ana López Mercado
Fun fact: Luna is not circumcised. That penis you see is pure prosthetic.
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
Released: 2001
Directed by: David Lynch
Actors: Naomi Watts and Laura Harring
Fun fact: Watts, facing eviction and the loss of her health insurance, almost quit acting after filming wrapped. Nicole Kidman talked her into staying, and here we are today.
TOP GUN
Released: 1986
Directed by: Tony Scott
Actors: Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis
Fun fact: Cruise forgot his line after the car chase scene, so he kissed McGillis instead. It stuck.
ROAD HOUSE
Released: 1989
Directed by: Rowdy Herrington (real name)
Actors: Patrick Swayze and Kelly Lynch
Fun fact: Ronda Rousey will star in a remake of the film. Hopefully the new version will not include a painful-looking sex scene against a brick wall.
Released: 2004
Directed by: Trey Parker
Actors: Two puppets voiced by Trey Parker and Kristen Miller
Fun fact: After showing an initial version of the film to the Motion Picture Association of America, the board gave it an NC-17 rating for the sex scene. After at least nine edits with different sex scenes the film finally got an R rating.
SHOOT ‘EM UP
Released: 2007
Directed by: Michael Davis
Actors: Clive Owen and Monica Bellucci
Fun fact: This film had a body count of 151—nine during this sex scene.
By Esquire
Which one was your craziest?
