'An erotic thriller'

HA HA HA HA HA

GAH.

why did erotic thrillers have to die as a genre? I really love them.

im watching poison ivy starring DREW BARRYMORE on instant netflix right now

1) Lisa Boyle was way hott!! She was in like the first Bad Boys movie.

2) Blue Sunshine is a movie I desperately want to see.

3) The movie that Norman Phay was talking about, about the family that hates each other, is called Friend of the Family starring Shauna O'Brien as Elke the hot tenant that shags everyone.

didnt u see CHLOE

im watching poison ivy starring DREW BARRYMORE on instant netflix right now

Is that the one with Max Headroom as the dad?

tom skerritt is the dad

what does everyone think of SLIVER? the soundtrack is pretty great.

i think in 1994 the concept of PEOPLE WATCHING YOU was way more edgy.

Doesn't Poison Ivy have Alyssa Milano in it as well? The sequel is where the blond girl from My Name is Earl got her big break...

Even though I've seen Exotica, I'm still kinda weirded out about Egoyan making high-class softcore...there was a time in my adolescence when I was a little obsessed w Canadian art-films, and I really liked The Sweet Hereafter...

Poison Ivy 2 has Alyssa Milano in it

Poison Ivy 3 is the one w/ Jaime Presley

i like erotic thrillers with sexual awakenings (poison ivy 2, lake consequence) but i also like ones about women being stalked (lady beware, sliver)

You ever see Boxing Helena?

No idea why I had Matt Frewer in my mind as a guy getting cut with a knife in that movie.

Meanwhile, this is hilarious:

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/8066/screenshot20110227at125.png

yes ive seen boxing helena tons of times

its pretty ridic

i used to think that sex scene in boxing helena w/ julian sands and the nurse was soooooooooooo hot

i was like 15

has anyone seen lake consequence?

its pretty great. its also on instant netflix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eNUq7004WI

i also HIGHLY RECOMMEND the lifetime movie with eric roberts (love him) and anne heche - FATAL DESIRE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFS2B6W6Y8o

Yeah I saw Lake CQ way back in the day. My memory's a bit fuzzy about the actual movie but there was a jacuzzi 3some on the video box; I'll never forget that.

One movie like that I always wanted to check out but never did was Angels and Insects. Did you ever see that one, h2?

yup, seen it. i dont really think of that as an erotic thriller, though. the costumes are pretty.

i think it's worth a watch, though

I remember a movie with Anne Heche and Joan Chen in it called Wild Side. Theywere lesbian hookers in it iirc. Christopher Walken was in it too. He fuck some dude in the ass for trying to rape one of the women.

(I probably wouldn't call that movie an erotic thriller either)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mvEazWjM-0

ugh, billy baldwin is so gross

See, is he in that? I only saw the last third of the movie, and it was years and years ago. I only mentioned it bcz of the Heche/Chen connection...

I used to be obsessed with all sorts of random movies I watched on late night HBO or Cinemax. There was this weird European B-movie called Night of the Archer that I saw once and was obsessed with for a long time...

I'm back!!!!

With one of my FAVORITE EROTIC THRILLERZ,

STARRING BRUCE WILLIS

'COLOR OF NIGHT'

Okay so this movie is really amazing. I remember when it came out on VHS in 1994 my sister rented it and it really blew my mind.

So here's the sitch: BILL CAPA (DIE HARD's BRUCE WILLIS) is a psychiatrist who is suffering from MAJOR GUILT and COLOR BLINDNESS (GET IT--COLOR of NIGHT? GET IT???) after his amazing patient, Michelle, jumps out of a building after a confrontation. Seriously, Michelle is only in the movie for about two minutes and they are the best two minutes of the movie.

DON'T BELIEVE ME, PLEASE WATCH THIS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm9gGo_i0ls&feature=player_embedded

The score is also really amazing and reminds me of PC adventure games like THE 7TH GUEST

So anyway, after BILL CAPA experiences this TERRIFYING EVENT, he goes to visit his long time colleague, Bob--played by SCOTT BAKULA.

Are you into this yet?

Anyway, anyway, BOB is ALSO a shrink and leads some group therapy session comprised of a motley crue of rag tag crazies (GROUP OF CRAZIES: LESLIE ANN WARREN, the guy who plays the robot in ALIENS, the doctor from DEADWOOD, and someone that looks like an extra from Planet of the Apes). BUT THEN OMG BOB DIES AND BILL HAS TO TAKE OVER THE THERAPY GROUP. DO PEOPLE REALLY HAVE THERAPY GROUPS LIKE THIS? Somehow the therapy group scenes really remind me of the movies my friends and I made in highschool, with really over the top dialogue and ridiculousness.

BILL then meets a sexy girl with rabbit teeth and gross hair and they pork in the pool and there's this amazing sex scene montage. The best bit is after they're fucking Bruce has this really outrageous sounding grunting orgasm, and rabbit teeth girl is gasping, "I WANT YOU TO GET DRESSED UP FOR ME!" Cut to Bruce in a monkey suit seated at a table. Rabbit teeth girl makes him a steak and sits at the table naked. He says he's not hungry. She says, "I have something you might want..." CUT RIGHT BACK TO THEM PORKING WHILE THE SOARING SOUNDTRACK BLARES! It's out of this world!

So it turns out someone in the therapy sesh is one of the killers, OBVIOUSLY

I WON'T GIVE ANY SPOILERS but the movie goes on about 30 minutes too long but every single second of it is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-TPQSYZI_Y

they don't make these anymore, do they? such an 80s/early 90s thing

S: Wild Orchid, 9 1/2 Weeks, Blown Away

Dressed to Kill = gold standard.

yeah, internet porn killed this sexy genre

the one with max headroom is "far from home" which is a really weird mix of erotic thriller and abc afterschool special.

this may have been mentioned already.

I see Boxing Helena is mentioned upthread, that movie is amazing.

Boxing Helena

omg "Far From Home"! what a weird fucking movie

"okay, so it's gonna be 'deliverance' meets 'my girl'."

haha i dont even think 'my girl' had come out at that point but it gives you the general vibe

wait waht

maybe I should see this

i think the two shifts totally go hand in hand: i absolutely associate the 80s new wavification of rock with the mainstreaming of the erotic thriller -- not least bcz the texture of music videos permeated the early 80s films in this vein (and vice versa)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz9VN40nCA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaPTELylZ1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Z6MAK58gs

Excellent point but you have inexplicably omitted Sheena Easton's "Sugar Walls."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Alq8rJIbo

"Self Control" definitely. All that exciting danger a liberated woman encounters.

Definitely why Dressed to Kill fits.

Also, random notes:

Jonathan Rosenbaum on Basic Instinct: https://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/how-to-write-a-3-million-script/Content?oid=879416

Fatal Attraction is the all-time hit of this genre, isn't it?

And given how long it took Kubrick to make Eyes WideShut, he must've started in on it around that time.

So why did "In the Cut" end Meg Ryan's career? It's not great but she is not particularly terrible, nor is it by any means embarrassing. It's just a creepy little movie.

It didn't, iirc. I want to say the nail in the coffin - beyond just her entering upper middle age and getting written out of roles like Renee Russo on down - was a few years earlier, with "Proof of Life," when her affair with Russel Crowe (right?) got her branded the proverbial other woman and she became tabloid fodder. I suppose it's more accurate to say "In the Cut" killed Campion's Hollywood hopes.

It's well-made and directed imo

It was fine, iirc. But maybe, especially a few years post Piano, so anonymously 'erotic thriller" that no one cared. That's why I don't think it's Meg that it killed, any more than, say, Sliver killed Sharon Stone's career. Which, of course, it didn't, if you include "Casino," but that was an outlier. It feels that Sliver (like Jade did for Linda Fiorentino) really reduced her to a joke, even if Joe Eszterhas was ultimately to blame for both. And those plus Showgirls killed his career as much as it did theirs.

That is, all those movies took down their respective auteurs and while not necessarily their leads, they seemed to go down with them.

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/From-Basic-Instinct-to-Showgirls-the-15865290.php

Adrian Lyne and Ben Affleck are bringing it back, baby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Water_(2021_film)

Further to which

Crazy gossip from work I can’t not share: at least one of the big streamers wants to bring back erotic thrillers. (Can’t wait for a new Adrian Lyne movie)

— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) May 8, 2021

let's goooooooo

"I hear you're a...big streamer..."

from peppe the piss pig, a watersports-themed erotic thriller

straight to streaming erotic thrillers sounds like a goldmine

this is definitely Prime if it's true

hope all erotic thriller fans are aware of the delightful and odd podcast NIGHT TIME FOR ONE
http://nighttimeforone.com/

I love Prime it's such a weird chaotic mess, there are some crazy weird 70s movies down in the Prime basement

the voyeurs which has just popped up on amazon prime def looks like it’s got this vibe

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-xndtrXsAAc2VH.jpg

C5 have been repeating Red Shoe Diaries, just in case you missed David Duchovny reading steamy letters to a dog.

read Michael Mohan as Michael Chabon at first

https://deadline.com/2021/12/ben-affleck-ana-de-armas-movie-deep-water-heading-to-streaming-1234890214/

Here we go:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/you-must-remember-this-new-season-erotic-movies-1235107060/

Some films discussed in the season will be American Gigolo, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fatal Attraction, as well as works from Steven Soderbergh and Brian De Palma, among others. Each episode will focus on one year, discussing movies and stars, with the season culminating in the year 1999, focusing on Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.

hmm

no skerritt no credibility

I was actually just thinking about Jade the other day and Linda Fiorentino, surely one of the undisputed queens of the genre

Fast Times seems somewhat out of place there

Well the net seems to be cast a bit broadly, no bad thing.

last american virgin seems to fit the bill, as well