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

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

Black Widow is soooo dull: pretty scenery, and Theresa Russell's talent for draining the life out of anything she's in. Hence the title.

has anyone mentioned Masquerade (Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly)?

Speaking of Tom Berenger, there was Someone to Watch Over Me, right? Then Sean Young and Matt Dillon in A Kiss Before Dying?

^^^ good choices

yeah A Kiss Before Dying is actually pretty good

Speaking of Sean Young...Love Crimes.

When was the last time two actors embraced all erotic thriller like on a movie poster? I doubt Dragon Tattoo counts.

I feel like Angelina Jolie might have been the last actress to really grab this bull by the horns (Original Sin, Taking Lives)

http://images.art.com/images/products/large/10082000/10082263.jpg

to really grab this bull by the horns

o yeah

i think one "erotic thriller" element oft-overlooked is the presence of male nip on the movie poster.

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/99/MPW-49586

nice poll! was almost going to say "no mention of Poison Ivy?" but then realized I overlooked it

voting Dressed to Kill

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.

yeah, although I don't think the vibe is around anymore... partly because of the death of that soft 'video' aesthetic, but also the sense of (moral?) danger around sex isn't as strong I guess, sex doesn't have the same punch

Chloe tried to revive it last year. Didn't really work.

one thing about 'jade' i remember is there's the not insignificant role of this wise-cracking older cop who was played by an actor who literally never appeared in anything before or since, which i thought was strange.

omg chloe was so bad

my fave thing about jade (Aside from obvious stuff like caruso line readings) is that William Friedkin threw in a car chase going the wrong way through what may have been a chinese new years parade. Slowly.

Slam Dance is a 1987 thriller directed by Wayne Wang and starring Virginia Madsen, Tom Hulce, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

A married cartoonist named C.C. Drood becomes involved in the cover up of a political sex scandal after his lover, Yolanda, a call girl, is found murdered.

Bobby has betrayed his wife Helen with the exotic Yolanda, who takes him to a club where the patrons slam dance, violently crashing into one another on the dance floor.

Bobby Nye, a former lesbian lover of Yolanda's, hires a hit man named Buddy to do away with Drood, who is also hotly pursued by the police. Drood ultimately comes to believe that Bobby and Buddy are the ones responsible for Yolanda's death. A corrupt cop, Gilbert, is doing everything in his power to pin the whole thing on Drood, but a police colleague, Smiley, intervenes on the wanted man's behalf.

(Act 3 spoilers excised)

Virginia Madsen as Yolanda Caldwell
Tom Hulce as C.C. Drood
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Helen Drood
Don Keith Opper as Buddy
Adam Ant as Jim Campbell
John Doe as John Gilbert
Harry Dean Stanton as Smiley
Judith Barsi as Bean
Lisa Niemi as Miss Schell
Herta Ware as Mrs. Raines