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Abstract

The essay discusses a cycle of Brazilian pornochanchada from the late 1970s to early 1980s, when the national sexploitation cinema found itself less constrained by the censorship of the Military Dictatorship, and began to exhibit increasingly bold sex scenes, as well as more violent themes that often crossed over into the horror genre. This period also coincides with the legalization of divorce in Brazil, the explosion of stories about serial killers, the political opening of the Geisel government (1974-1979), and the introduction of television and radio programs focused on discussing sexuality. Our goal is to discuss how horror "pornochanchada" sparked a debate on the ongoing sexual revolution of the period through a 'battle of the sexes' that pitted, on one side, films about men who kill women, and on the other, films about women who become the monsters of the horror stories they star in.