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

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.

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

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.

"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."

Craig Wasson is pretty terrible.

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

omg "Unfaithful"! I had forgotten about that movie

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

sorry not the nineties, the 00s

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

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

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

I have Sliver to thank for introducing me to Heaven 17

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.

"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.

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

Wild Things is an excellent comedy.

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

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

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.

gotta be body double for the soundtrack alone

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

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

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

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

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

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

and Threesome.

this is tough!

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

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

He is a lost soul

And dumb

These are exactly the sort of movies that I never know whether they hold up at all to their positive memory. Loved Wild Things and The Last Seduction at the time. But I also loved Body Double when I was 14, and watching that one again last year, it did not hold up at all.

Whispers in the Dark (with Annabelle Sciorra and Alan Alda, and maybe Jason Patric or Adian Quinn?) is the one missing from this list that I liked at the time.

"the cook the thief his wife and her lover"

yeah someone got this for some lol-90s-college-dorm-movie-night thing and just ugh... I hate Peter Greenaway, I think.

Voting for Dressed To Kill, even though that's equivalent to 1980's Raging Bull being the Best Movie Of The '80s for many.

Dressed to Kill without any real runners up. (Eyes Wide Shut is awesome and all, but not much in line with the rest of these.)

Love Body Double's satire of Tangerine Dream.

Never saw Whispers In The Dark but still lol at it nearly 20 years later cause of this:

http://siskelandebert.org/video/34MNK6G6NOAW/The-Worst-of-1992

Color Of Night and Basic Instinct win my silver and bronze, mostly for the LOLs though

xpost oh man the "twist" of Whispers In The Dark is so awesome

LOL, I'm now going to spend my evening watching S&E's year-end worsts.

u guys saying body double doesnt hold up or that wasson is bad are crazzzyyyyy

this is tough!

― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Monday, November 7, 2011 11:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Jagged Edge would fit onto the list, although it does overlap with the courtroom-drama genre.

That S&E site is dangerously addictive. ESPECIALLY the year-end worst shows.

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.)