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

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.

i should add that i thought both movies kicked total ass

oh no doubt, they are fantastic movies

Hey shouldn't CRASH be on here?

the CRASH with Matt Dillon in Tevas?

I guess it's debatable whether Elias Koteas takes the film to hypothetical "thriller" status

xpost wah wah

I'd definitely rep for Dreamlover, where Madchen Amick gets all up in James Spader's business. For a list of erotic 80s and 90s stuff this feels low on James Spader.

yeah where's Bad Influence?

or White Palace?

For a list of erotic 80s and 90s stuff this feels low on James Spader.

^^^

Does Wild at Heart count?

I guess it's how you dudes are defining thriller?

Like, straight up drama with sex is not an erotic thriller. Gots to be some crime and killing and stuff.

White Palace isn't a thriller, but oh yeah to Bad Influence.

Also Internal Affairs, which I confuse with Bad Influence

What about Polanski's Frantic? I always liked that one. I suppose the erotic element is light, though there is Seigner...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRoRo5mUV5o

not enough erotic in Frantic, I'd argue.

No Way Out?

Presumed Innocent has an "erotic thriller" box cover, but I bet its deceptive like the White Palace one

xpost No Way Out sort of separates the erotic part and the thriller part, but its famous for both so sure.

How about Never Talk To Strangers; the unforgettable (and not in a good way) team up of Rebecca De Mornay and Antonio Banderas from 1995.

as a massive perv I have to say that every one of these I saw left me disappointed

Just remembered Consenting Adults, the erotic thriller where Kevin Spacey tries to murderously wife swap with Kevin Kline.

xpost Never Talk To Strangers is a slam dunk.

xpost as a pubescent pre-ethernet I was very grateful for all these movies.

That's because these aren't films for massive pervs. I sympathize.

xp

my perversity was not disappointed by Bound xp

also a good movie imo and has my vote