My Bloody Valentine: The 14 Most Unhinged Horror Couples
From Ellen and Orlok to Stu and Billy, we’ve picked our favourite freaky pairings in the genre
by Alex Secilmis & Lana Thorn 14 February 2026
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To celebrate the 14th of February, we’ve selected the 14 most devoted yet deranged couples from horror movies and TV shows, with romances from Scream, Possession, and more.
We’ve also included a few people who haven’t yet consummated their love, but whose attraction to one another is undeniable. Disclaimer: If you’re looking for them, we consider Gomez and Morticia a little too wholesome for this list.
Anna & Mark - Possession
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Anna (Isabelle Adjani) and Mark (Sam Neill) go through perhaps the worst divorce in horror history in Andrzej Żuławski’s cult 1981 psychological thriller. A film filled with shouting matches, misused carving knives, and erotic tentacles, Adjani and Neill never stop matching each other’s freak.
Lestat & Louis - Interview with the Vampire
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The 2022 AMC show does what the Tom Cruise film could not and delivers an explicitly queer, deliciously toxic relationship portrayed by Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson. When they’re not sucking blood, they’re torturing each other in their comically codependent relationship.
Stu & Billy - Scream
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Whether from the blood loss or the giddy thrill of their romantic tension, Stu Macher and Billy Loomis are sure to feel “a little woozy” in each other’s presence. Actors Matthew Lillard and Skeet Ulrich have proudly titled themselves the “first husbands of horror”.
Ellen & Orlok - Nosferatu
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Before you come for us, Robert Eggers and co. have explicitly stated that Ellen (Lily Rose-Depp) and Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård) share a mutual attraction. Turns out Mrs Hutter is just a grade A monsterfucker.
Lisa & Creature - Lisa Frankenstein
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A couple that kills together, stays together. Teenage outcast Lisa (Kathryn Newton) and a reanimated Victorian gentleman (Cole Sprouse) have a romance to kindle and an axe to grind in Zelda Williams’ zany 80s-set horror comedy.
Will & Hannibal - Hannibal
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You wouldn’t think that NBC adapting fiction’s most famous cannibal would result in one of the gayest TV shows in network television history. But thanks to Bryan Fuller and co-leads Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, that’s exactly what happened.
Jackie & Shauna - Yellowjackets
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The epitome of doomed yuri, best friends and stranded plane crash survivors Jackie (Ella Purnell) and Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) share an outrageous amount of lesbian longing as they make a new life for themselves in the Canadian wilderness.
Maren & Lee - Bones and All
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Moving on from peaches and chocolate, Timothée Chalamet has another food to fixate on in Luca Guadagnino’s romantic horror film: human flesh. Taylor Russell plays the other fine young cannibal.
Tim & Milie - Together
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Real-life spouses Dave Franco and Alison Brie play an uncomfortably close couple in this relationship drama fused with a grisly body horror bonanza.
Laszlo & Nadja (& Nandor) - What We Do in the Shadows
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The most charming bloodsuckers in Staten Island, the eternally horny Laszlo (Matt Berry) and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) are always up to some naughty fun. Sometimes Laszlo fools around with everyone’s favourite Iranian warrior, Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak).
The Countess and Ramona Royale - American Horror Story: Hotel
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Lady Gaga’s fashionista vampire could be on this list with any one of her many lucky lovers, but we’re going with Angela Bassett’s fierce vampire / blaxploitation film star.
Adam and Dr Lawrence - Saw
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Ok, we know this relationship rests firmly in the head canon of many a Saw fan, but one can’t deny the palpable romance between Leigh Whannell and Cary Elwes’ bloodied leads.
Oskar and Eli - Let the Right One In
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Preteens Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) and Eli (Lina Leandersson) share a sweet but nevertheless unhinged romance in this Swedish coming-of-age vampire tale.
Aaron and Josef - Creep
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Full disclosure again: Aaron and Josef are anything but lovers in Patrick Brice’s found footage comedy horror. But that doesn’t stop us from enjoying this film as a thoroughly twisted love story.