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

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

was hoping you guys were talking about an erotic thriller starring Chloe Sevigny :(

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Body Heat Double Indemnity is almost a masterpiece

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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

we need to do a John Doe film poll...

god this was such a big deal

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/2/9/8/0/3/4/webimg/494218694_tp.jpg

i think one "erotic thriller" element oft-overlooked is the presence of male nip on the movie poster.
there aren't a whole lot of appropriate places to put this story, but this seems as good as any

when i was in 3rd gr my two bffs and i went with one girl's dad to see an erotic thriller (can't even remember which one, but i know it was "boring" and seemed "foreign") and there was this part featuring male nip that we found extremely hilarious, so we devised this three-girl assault of scream-chanting PALE BOOB NEEDS CHLOROPHYLL (we were learning about photosynthesis in school) and tormented the dad with this chant all the way home

Steve Martin as Dad

he looked a lot like steve martin! his name was jeff.

Double Indemnity is almost a masterpiece

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― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, November 7, 2011 11:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

bro, I said Body Heat was boring. You can't even agree with me when you agree with me smh

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.

― omar little, Monday, November 7, 2011 11:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

IIRC he's the best thing in the whole movie

although the death of angie everhart's character is hilaaarrrious

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

― da croupier, Monday, November 7, 2011 5:21 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I remember PI having a fairly explicit sex scene, though I may be overestimating it because my parents took my sister and I to see it when we were 11 and 12 and, um, awkward.

Purple Rain could've been a good erotic thriller.

Has the Richard Gere/Kim Basinger film Final Analysis been mentioned yet? I remember digging that one as a kid in a kind of "I hadn't seen the movies it was ripping off, so I didn't really know better" kinda way.

went for Single White Female b/c hot psychopath Jennifer Jason Leigh is hot. I mean, it is totally ridiculous, but then most of these probably are.

The scares & performances in Fatal Attraction are def superior to the others here that I've seen (about half of them), but the awful misogyny kinda ruins that film imo

no Never Talk To Strangers no credibility

PALE BOOB NEEDS CHLOROPHYLL!

A: PALE
B: BOOB
C: NEEDS
ABC: CHLOROPHYLL!

repeat as needed

still helplessly lol-ing

the big easy!

speaking of movies watched with parents, awkward

the big easy is awesome iirc.

i always associate this genre with adrian lyne. did he really direct jacob's ladder? seems out of character.

i think it goes without saying that i watched all of these erotically thrilling movies as an adolescent: some in the theater, some on cable, some on sleazy video

Lynne also did Damage, the upscale psychosexual thriller.

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

So have I, I feel slightly creepy about that.

This thread is also making me miss 90s Cinemax, they had a lot of straight to cable erotic thrillers.

Easy access to online porn = the death of the erotic thriller.

Man, you've been busy!

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

― omar little, Monday, November 7, 2011 5:36 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

LOL

I mean, it was already established upthread that porn and erotic thrillers do not appeal to the same audience, but I still suspect that many an 80s/90s adolescent was resorting to one in the absence of the other.

The banishment of Joe Eszterhas = the banishment of the erotic thriller.

1992: Sherry Lansing is hired [3] to run Paramount and spends $3.6 million in less than a week, $2.5 million [4] for a two-page outline of Jade by Joe Eszterhas, and $1.1 million [5] for the script Milk Money by John Mattson.

I mean, there's no reason an erotic thriller with Mila Kunis, Lindsay Lohan, and Ruffalo wouldn't be a hit if done well.

pity there were no foreign erotic thrillers in the '80s and '90s.

Imagining the Hollywood remake of Monsieur Hire.

A superior remake of an Amerindie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117394/

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

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

What that movie needs is JAMES SPADER.

Every movie could use a little Spader imo.

what about Diva?

(can't use Spader though)

Easy access to online porn = the death of the erotic thriller.

Online porn is so thrilling.

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I love Diva so much. I was sort of obsessed with that movie when I was maybe 13 or 14.

Will Smith and Whitney looked into doing a remake of that for a while.

there are still some seriously terrible non-porn 'erotic thrillers' on the straight-to-DVD/premium cable circuit...i discovered one unintentionally hilarious one that i've been trying to get someone to help me assemble a highlights reel youtube video of, if anyone w/ the technical abilities wants to collaborate on it w/ me.

christ the ending of No Way Out or rather the last third in fact, sinks a really good film up to that point. Sliver is a dreadful piece of garbage.

no Jagged Edge? not very um.. erotic i guess.

Swimfan was a noble '00s experiment in the final frontier of EROTIC THRILLER TEEN MOVIES

SET IN GLISTENING BODIES OF WATER

Swimfan is so funny.