we need to do a John Doe film poll...
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 7 November 2011 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
god this was such a big deal
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/2/9/8/0/3/4/webimg/494218694_tp.jpg
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 November 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Yasmine Teeth (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
Steve Martin as Dad
― your way better (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
he looked a lot like steve martin! his name was jeff.
― Yasmine Teeth (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
Double Indemnity is almost a masterpiece
fixed
― 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
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
although the death of angie everhart's character is hilaaarrrious
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jer.fairall, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
Purple Rain could've been a good erotic thriller.
― Eagles ft. Michael Vick (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jer.fairall, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
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
― moo-town slackers (Pillbox), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
no Never Talk To Strangers no credibility
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
PALE BOOB NEEDS CHLOROPHYLL!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
A: PALEB: BOOBC: NEEDSABC: CHLOROPHYLL!
repeat as needed
― Yasmine Teeth (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
still helplessly lol-ing
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
the big easy!
― goole, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of movies watched with parents, awkward
― goole, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
the big easy is awesome iirc.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Yasmine Teeth (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
Lynne also did Damage, the upscale psychosexual thriller.
― Eagles ft. Michael Vick (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― bouquet beatdown (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
Easy access to online porn = the death of the erotic thriller.
― jer.fairall, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jer.fairall, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Eagles ft. Michael Vick (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, there's no reason an erotic thriller with Mila Kunis, Lindsay Lohan, and Ruffalo wouldn't be a hit if done well.
― Eagles ft. Michael Vick (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
pity there were no foreign erotic thrillers in the '80s and '90s.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
Imagining the Hollywood remake of Monsieur Hire.
― Eagles ft. Michael Vick (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
A superior remake of an Amerindie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117394/
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
Every movie could use a little Spader imo.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
what about Diva?
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
(can't use Spader though)
Online porn is so thrilling.
― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
xp
I love Diva so much. I was sort of obsessed with that movie when I was maybe 13 or 14.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
Will Smith and Whitney looked into doing a remake of that for a while.
― Eagles ft. Michael Vick (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
Swimfan was a noble '00s experiment in the final frontier of EROTIC THRILLER TEEN MOVIES
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
SET IN GLISTENING BODIES OF WATER
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
Swimfan is so funny.
― bouquet beatdown (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
someone in my nabe keeps tagging things with 'swimfan_69' and it makes me laugh every time i see it
― so solaris (Lamp), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:23 (43 minutes ago)
No, Body Double is about a hapless dweeb's trip into the world of sleaze.
Spader has too much knowing sleaze in him already. Though I'll give him credit, he fared pretty well as a non-sleazy nerd in Stargate.
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
I saw Color Of Night in the theater in college, I never forgave my friend for dragging me to see it. Retinal scrubbing continues to this day.
Bound gets my vote. HAWT.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
I saw Body Heat when it was first shown in theatres. All I remember is (1) it was boring and not at all erotic, and (2) about every ten minutes someone would complain about how hot it was.
― Everything else is secondary (Lee626), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
Wasn't Swimfan PG-13? A PG-13 erotic thriller is the very definition of useless.
― jer.fairall, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
obsessed is pg-13 too; i feel like it shouldn't be.
― patio hunter (get bent), Monday, 14 November 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
Black Swan is kind of an erotic thriller.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 November 2011 03:14 (twelve years ago) link