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

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!

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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

Bound is awesome.

No love for Body Heat? Kathleen Turner! William Hurt's mustache!

Body Heat is almost a masterpiece, but the whole thing is so sleepy and dull in the end. Kael was otm about that movie -- Mickey Rourke is the only actor in the movie that seems awake.

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

He makes tons of TV.

I have seen every one of these movies - most in the theater!

Black Widow and Beseiged, two films where undercover agent Debra Winger gets caught up with a murderer in a sexy way.

Betrayed, not Besieged.

I still need to see body double and cat people.

I'm really sad that this era of filmmaking is over, even though the genre is filled with junk. At least it's junk for adults.

Wow, Tom Berenger was in Besieged, right?

I am going to make one of these movies. It will be called An Excuse for Fucking.

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I'm really sad that this era of filmmaking is over, even though the genre is filled with junk. At least it's junk for adults.

seriously! I don't want to settle for R rated TV. I don't want to invest more than two hours in this business.

this era was a good time to rent beach front property to production companies, I bet, though all the night shoots must have sucked for neighbors.

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

No joke. 1982 had some great bad movies. (And bad commercials.)

http://siskelandebert.org/video/N44N7DM9RKON/At-the-Movies-Stinkers-of-1982