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

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I confused

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

With

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

Franz Kappa (S-), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link

Full frontal Willis!

eh he does this all the time

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

He does?

Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

Defend the Indefensible: psychologically raw films about sexual obsession

:)

goole, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

he's very proud of Li'l Bruce afaict

xp

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

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

Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

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.

enchilada sauce (get bent), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

other films Bruce Willis gets naked in:

12 Monkeys
shows his ass in 5th Element iirc

xp

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

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

ice cr?m, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

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

Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link

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!

Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link

thx for reminding me - I need to see that

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link

oh wow, you really do

dense macabre (DJP), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link

> 9/5 Weeks was a thriller?

no, but still maybe my fave plotless movie

Everything else is secondary (Lee626), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link

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

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link

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

Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link

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

dense macabre (DJP), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link

Wild orchid does seem to be a really obv omission.

Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link

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

Matt Armstrong, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link

So I am thinking I should see this jade movie.

Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link

i def have a soft spot for 'single white female'

vitameatawalloginavegamin (donna rouge), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link

last seduction is really good. body double is dope and i like how it's almost a slasher film, too. very giallo as much as hitchcockian. wild things is cool. if this was expanded to the nineties i might consider a vote for unfaithful, which was better than it had any right to be.

omar little, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link

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

but it does have "Unfinished Sympathy."

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link

Craig Wasson is pretty terrible.

yeah srsly. Is this the worst performance in a De Palma movie before TBOTV?

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link

omg "Unfaithful"! I had forgotten about that movie

dense macabre (DJP), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link

Mine:

Dressed to Kill
Sea of Love (one of Pacino's few believable performances of the last twenty-five years; good Barkin and John Goodman work too).
The Last Seduction

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link

sorry not the nineties, the 00s

omar little, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link

Few movies as forgettable as Sliver have soundtracks as awesome as that one does.

jer.fairall, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link

ellen barkin is like a one woman erotic thriller in any movie from the late 80s to the mid 90s

omar little, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link

yeah it's like the 'empire records' of erotic thrillers

omar little, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link

I have Sliver to thank for introducing me to Heaven 17

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link

billy baldwin was the most useless actor hollywood tried to foist upon america as a star. well maybe not as useless as chris o'donnell.

omar little, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link

"Wild Things" is a masterpiece of some sort. Want to say this movie is a key component in the Bill Murray critical comeback, too. But really, everyone is perfect in this, and as erotic thrillers go, it's pretty sneaky. Plus, full frontal Bacon. "

Last Seduction" holds up well, too. Hate pretty much all the De Palma on here as anything more than camp.

Some real batshit stinkers here, from Jade to Color Of Night to Body of Evidence to Sliver. Joe Eszterhas, man. This guy went from esteemed journalists to lines like "I guess he got off before he got offed."

Eszterhas once saved the life of a friend while covering an Ohio race riot.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link

1. Dressed to Kill, 2. Fatal Attraction, 3. Eyes Wide Shut. I like Body Double, and I'd throw in Disclosure, too.

clemenza, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link

Wild Things is an excellent comedy.

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link

It's hilarious. And the ending credits flips are inspired.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link

The jokes come fast, the first of which is Matt Dillon wearing Tevas in 1998.

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link

i'm p sure i've told this story before, but in college some friends had a movie night at their house, and for some reason i succeeded in lobbying for both movie picks, and for some reason those movies were "wild things" and "the cook the thief his wife and her lover" and no i was not allowed to pick movies again.

goole, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link

gotta be body double for the soundtrack alone

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

max, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link

Wow, looks like "Wild Things" was John McNaughton's last feature film. Wonder what's up with that?

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link

also lol at the fact that 3 of these movies have "body" in the title

max, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link

tightrope is a good thriller, not sure how erotic it is

chief rocker frankie crocker (m coleman), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXD0ZdYxOuM

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link

i'm p sure i've told this story before, but in college some friends had a movie night at their house, and for some reason i succeeded in lobbying for both movie picks, and for some reason those movies were "wild things" and "the cook the thief his wife and her lover" and no i was not allowed to pick movies again.

oh man

all you needed to add in there is "Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down" and "Eat Drink Man Woman" and that would have been the lol-90s-college-est movie night ever

dense macabre (DJP), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link

and Threesome.

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link

this is tough!

The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link

I need to watch Tightrope again -- I love Genevieve Bujold in most anything. The first Serious Clint movie, no?

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link

DePalma owns this thread. Dressed to motheruckin' Kill.

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

― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Monday, November 7, 2011 10:07 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

He's pretty bad (and looks distractingly like Bill Maher) but his intrinsic wienerdom works for that character, IMO

latebloomer, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link

He is a lost soul

ice cr?m, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:55 (twelve years ago) link

And dumb

ice cr?m, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:55 (twelve years ago) link

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

rob, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 15:38 (eleven months ago) link

I'm still haunted by her Susan Atkins.

peace, man, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 15:44 (eleven months ago) link

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

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 16:11 (eleven months ago) link

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

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 5 May 2023 03:40 (eleven months ago) link

Is that a rhetorical question?

Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 04:00 (eleven months ago) link

one month passes...

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.

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 12 June 2023 19:04 (ten months ago) link

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.

ian, Monday, 19 June 2023 12:00 (ten months ago) link

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.

ian, Monday, 19 June 2023 12:00 (ten months ago) link

I can’t type on my phone sorry.

ian, Monday, 19 June 2023 12:01 (ten months ago) link

Interested to see what you think.

Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 June 2023 12:03 (ten months ago) link

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.

ian, Monday, 19 June 2023 12:20 (ten months ago) link

B-b-but what about the soundtrack?

Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 June 2023 12:22 (ten months ago) link

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.

ian, Monday, 19 June 2023 12:57 (ten months ago) link

Enjoyed the heist sequence itself.
Now off to work.

ian, Monday, 19 June 2023 13:10 (ten months ago) link

two weeks pass...

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.

clemenza, Sunday, 9 July 2023 05:17 (nine months ago) link

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

clemenza, Sunday, 9 July 2023 05:22 (nine months ago) link


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