Titillation is the whole battle in the grindhouse horror, and unsimulated sex acts bring realism to films by Michael Winterbottom, Lars von Trier, Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Verhoeven, Bertrand Bonello, Wayne Wang, Vincent Gallo, Joe Swanberg, Tsai Ming-liang, John Cameron Mitchell, Gaspar Noé, Yorgos Lanthimos and Catherine Breillat. For some in the indie world (and those that came from the world of exploitation cinema), the distinction drawn along that path has always been a blurry one.
The porn-to-mainstream trajectory isn’t an uncommon one for filmmaking professionals.
