~~ Erotic Thrillers of the 80s and 90s ~~

man i love me some single white female. that's a great movie.

I love Jade, but any movie starring Caruso should be disqualified from being "erotically thrilling".

"Basic Instinct" shouldn't work at all, but it does

"Sliver" shouldn't work at all... and it doesn't. It does have Lords of Acid on the soundtrack, tho

fatal attraction was pretty unerotic too.

x-post - You say that like it's a good thing.

I have a theory:

You can have an erotic movie starring Michael Douglas, and you can have an erotic movie starring Glenn Close, but you cannot have an erotic movie starring both Michael Douglas and Glenn Close

9/5 Weeks was a thriller?

BOUND

Listen people I didn't make the list I'm just going by what wiki cites as the definitive examples of the decades, OK? *hmpf*

Can't remember much of a thriller element in Eyes Wide Shut?

BOUND

LEBSIANES

Memorable quotes for
Body of Evidence (1993)

Rebecca Carlson: All we did was make love.
Frank Dulaney: In handcuffs.
Rebecca Carlson: It was different, but it was still making love. Have you ever seen animals make love, Frank? It's intense. It's violent. But they never really hurt each other.
Frank Dulaney: We're not animals.
Rebecca Carlson: Yes, we are.

Here's all I remember about Eyes Wide Shut: It really sucked.

You say that like it's a good thing.

Any movie that incorporates this song into a "sexy" scene gets humor points from me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l23DI4WdXXA

there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING erotic about "Boxing Helena"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

shirtless Bill Paxton + leather pants + mullet + Sadeness = EROTIC

BOUND

LEBSIANES

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Bound was hot. I remember watching that and being like O_O omg what did I just see ON TV?!!

also where is "Angel Heart"?

Of the seven films I've seen on the list, the best is easily Eyes Wide Shut, which is not a thriller. (even if that's how WB tried to sell it, cuz "Tom Cruise thinks/dreams about extramarital fucking, doesn't do it" isn't much of a box-office hook.)

The Last Seduction and Wild Things are fairly old-fashioned noirs with nudity etc.

also I assume the Blown Away on this list is the softcore porn featuring that chick from Baywatch and the two Coreys yes?

Surprised not to see any David Lynch films in this list.

Basic Instinct when Michael Douglas tries to blend in at the danceclub = roffles (and NSFW, I seem to remember, so I'll just link the scene here.)

"Wild Things" is nonstop bananas moment after bananas moment

xx-post - Nicole Eggert. Yes, I think that's a safe assumption.

Wild Things is easily the best actual film on here, the rest are pretty much just cheap lolz but oh the many lolz to be had...

Color of Night (1994), this film is astonishing

the last seduction was one of those movies that was a big deal at the time but no one talks about it anymore. sorta like hal hartley.

Emmanuelle is 70s; I know there were 80s sequels, but not much of a thriller element in those.

Probably go for Single White Female, just because running a double film w/Schroeder's classic Maitresse would be fkn good.

double bill

x-post - COlor of Night = Full frontal Willis!

cuz yeah most of these movies are neither thrilling nor erotic

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I confused

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0103843/

With

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0109303/

Full frontal Willis!

eh he does this all the time

He does?

Defend the Indefensible: psychologically raw films about sexual obsession

:)

he's very proud of Li'l Bruce afaict

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Had to double check Jade is on here so laughter does reign supreme. (Again an NSFW clip.)

Emmanuelle is 70s; I know there were 80s sequels, but not much of a thriller element in those.

yeah, i was thinking of the '80s/'90s spinoffs.

other films Bruce Willis gets naked in:

12 Monkeys
shows his ass in 5th Element iirc

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Body double one of my fav movies, btw lol 'erotically trilling', gangster

"Erotic thrillers" of the 1940s would be a much better poll.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Poison Ivy yet. I've seen that movie so many times. Darlene! Drew and Skeritt on top of a car in a scene that left me traumatized for years!

thx for reminding me - I need to see that

oh wow, you really do

> 9/5 Weeks was a thriller?

no, but still maybe my fave plotless movie

totally surprised Wild Orchid isn't on here...?

Body Double is 100% bravura ridiculousness but Craig Wasson is pretty terrible.

I really really hated EWS but the Ligeti piece that is the cornerstone of the soundtrack ("Musica Ricercata" mvmt 2) is one of my favorite things in the entire world

Wild orchid does seem to be a really obv omission.

guys have you read the original script for Jade online. You really should.

So I am thinking I should see this jade movie.

Xpost Hamildan

If you want to watch on a laptop you only need a VPN to sign up as a member - you can use any of the chrome browser vpn plugins. After that, the site will take a UK payment cards and you don’t need to use the VPN when you’re watching movies.

It’s possible to download the app via VPN too but I can’t remember how I did that!

I've needed this to return as winter drags on.

my god The Bedrooom Window, which I saw as part of Criterion's Isabelle Huppert series, has her worst performance and presents Steve Guttenberg as an erotic figure.

The he has the same malleable sexuality as peter riegert in crossing delancy

presents Steve Guttenberg as an erotic figure

Clearly you have not yet taken in the magnificence that is Can't Stop the Music.

that's my Guttenberg Bible

https://townsquare.media/site/341/files/2013/02/morgan_0.jpg

Guttentag!

iirc the bedroom window also has steve guttenberg give the least convincing use of the word "bitch" in a movie ever

That movie has a lot of Least Convincing things, for example the Art Deco nightmare of a bar they hang out at.

Who made him a star, anyway?

Hey, let's not forget Short Circuit, where he has a threesome with Ally Sheedy and a robot:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c4/60/f2/c460f240be5066d3830fd6e52bb3baac.jpg

Guttenberg > Selleck > Danson

well, compared to the last two, Guttenberg is Alain Delon.

Have only listened to the first 15 of the ep but, damn, if this turns into a 14-episode arc of how much the '90s sucked when it comes to sexual politics, it's going to be amazing.

Having finished listening to it, especially with her personal note at the end, I'm thinking your guess is right. Also looking forward to next week, which was fairly clearly signalled.

Will be interesting to see how this all comes together with the main impetus for the project, which is how the American cinema came to turn its back on depictions of sex almost entirely

One not mentioned yet. Save Mewith Lysette Anthony and Harry Hamlin.

Hamlin glowers through a telegraphed plot where red flags are slapping him constantly, and yet the show goes on. Plus, Michael Ironside in the cast!

Watched a couple of the Criterions (second viewing for each).

I actually tried to buy The Bedroom Window a couple of years ago and found it a little pricey. Hard to believe that when assembling the cast, someone said "erotic thriller" and someone else said "Steve Guttenberg!" I think Isabelle Huppert was getting lots of acclaim at the time for her French films, but to me she seemed miscast here. The only Robert Palmer song I ever liked, "Hyperactive," is used, the one thing I still remembered about the film, and Carl Lumbly, the detective, did a great job a few years ago providing Miles Davis' voice in Birth of the Cool.

Dream Lover is sillier but more interesting, I'd say, mostly thanks to Madchen Amick. Truly bizarre coincidence: after I finished watching last night, I was flipping around and came across two stations playing Seinfeld. One was airing the episode with Larry Miller as the doorman, the other had the episode with James Spader doing his 12 steps. Honest to god. (Both in Dream Lover, if you don't know.)

Here we go …

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Although it's played for laughs, I find the Robert DeNiro/Bridget Fonda sex scene in Jackie Brown to be very unpleasant. Maybe it's a good thing he feels this way.

per latest Karina Longworth episode, Theresa Russell's career is truly interesting but she's difficult to assess as an actor. I thought she was amazing in Bad Timing but had an opposite reaction when I saw her in Whore (during its brief theatrical run). But I suspect the problem in Whore is that Ken Russell's natural staginess overrides her skills somehow; would be interesting to see that again after all these years. Rewatched Crimes of Passion with Kathleen Turner and that film has a similar staginess problem although Turner does a good job in it.

I'm glad you brought her up; except for in Black Widow I've never considered her a watchable actor.

(xpost) She's fantastic in Straight Time--small role, might be her first film.

Worth a read: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8117-the-wet-dreams-and-twisted-politics-of-erotic-thrillers

Watching The Bedroom Window right now and I swear I’ve seen this exact same premise in an Italian giallo. Man’s girlfriend witnesses a crime from their apartment window… man reports it to the police as if he had witnessed it. Ring any bells to anyone? Early ‘70s Italian giallo?

lol I read that as "gelato"

Steve Guttenberg and Isabelle Huppert as a couple is a fantasy that only Hollywood’s dream merchants could bless us with

I saw The Bedroom Window at a second run theater when it was new and recalled sort of liking its neo-Hitchcockisms, but rewatching last night it's really not very good.

The You Must Remember This episode yesterday on Basic Instinct was unsurprisingly great. (Also a nice move to use selections from Sharon Stone's audiobook reading of her autobiography at points.)

Haven’t gotten to that one yet but anything that dissuades her from doing impressions is a plus (her Eastwood was a struggle!)

I'm still haunted by her Susan Atkins.

yeah i enjoyed this episode a lot, the stone audio was a nice touch. She did the same iirc for Carre Otis in the Wild Orchid/Rourke episode & it really elevated the ep i thought

lol Call Me is so bad. Why am I watching these things when there are other actually good movies on Criterion?

Is that a rhetorical question?

Dream Lover is currently on Criterion ending this month, and I thought it was entertaining, some offbeat dialogue, good supporting characters and plot turns. And Madchen Amick is beautiful.

Have we talked about The Hot Spot? Dennis Hopper directed 1990 adaptation of the very hood Charles Williams novel about car salesmen, sex and robbery? I lived that book so I’m gonna watch this one asap. May actually start it now, before work.

Have we talked about The Hot Spot? Dennis Hopper directed 1990 adaptation of the very hood Charles Williams novel about car salesmen, sex and robbery? I lived that book so I’m gonna watch this one asap. May actually start it now, before work.

I can’t type on my phone sorry.

Interested to see what you think.

Well... so far, I like the shots of the small town location. The acting is not particularly great. It's certainly erotic, and certainly a thriller. The sexy stuff can be a lil over the top (already, hardly into the film) but, I'll enjoy it. Probably finish this evening or tomorrow.

B-b-but what about the soundtrack?

It's not the worst, but definitely helps to date the film. The eating-pussy-in-the-car scene was a littttttle extra, if you know what i mean.

Enjoyed the heist sequence itself.
Now off to work.

Rep theatre screening of Basic Instinct. It really is kind of terrible. Two good things: Sharon Stone's performance--she seems to be the only one who's onto how campy and overwrought it all is--and four Seinfeld people.

(Six actually, checking online--four I knew.)