that cast is so 1995: caruso! fiorentino! palmintieri! EVERHART!
― omar little, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
~~ Erotic Thrillers of the 80s and 90s ~~
― ENBB, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
palminteri! i can't even spell the guy's name right. funny how he was such a big deal for about a week.
― omar little, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah. It seems like there was a spell when he had minor parts in tons of things.
― ENBB, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
now he has tons of parts in minor things (owned)
― omar little, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
Chazz Palminteri recently opened a restaurant in Baltimore called "Chazz: A Bronx Original," i'm not kidding
― some dude, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
x-lol
You go and tell us how it is. OK?
― ENBB, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
believe me, i want to
― some dude, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
I can't believe I haven't seen JADE!
You should definitely see it.
― Nicole, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
should have called it chazz'z
― goole, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
jade is so ridiculous, almost "color of night" ridiculous
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_aXAlSl02U
― Nicole, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
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― buzza, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
it's amazing that it took more than a decade for david caruso to become a proper camp icon
― Jean-Luc Gohard (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
Bet Shame will be included in the 'canon' for this in 5 years.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 January 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
I wanna see Shame
― homosexual II, Friday, 13 January 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
Though they sucked, I miss the "erotic thriller" of yesteryear. American cinema has basically no libidinal component at this point. 70s carnality could at least occasionally be "free", cheerful and all but meaningless. This was still true in the 80s (so many boob-laden teen comedies), but it was more and more frequently used to invoke emotional meltdowns and punishment by knife-wielding maniacs. By the end of the 90s, it had almost entirely vanished, Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls arguably the final nail. These days, our perversions seem to have been scrubbed from family-friendly theater screens, confined to designated filth pits like the internet and HBO series. Sad.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
guess i'm referring mostly to overt titillation as an audience lure in american pop cinema. aside from weirdly squeaky-clean teen fodder like american pie...
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
I miss these movies, too. What made them for me were examinations / explorations of human desire and emotions ... sex, lust, obsession, an element of experiencing something natural yet wrong, something inside ourselves taken a little too far. It's a weird and interesting sensation.
Don't know why they don't make these types of movies anymore, maybe it doesn't appeal to the whole contemporary "feel good everyday! everything is normal and peachy keen!" mentality. Which I find utter bullshit. Life's interesting because it can skew in so many different ways.
― Spectrum, Saturday, 14 January 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the way every hit movie these days is about people feeling good and peachy keen is really tiresome
― Jean-Luc Gohard (some dude), Saturday, 14 January 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah like doesnt the bad acting and questionable eroticism live in on megahits like twilight even today?
i guess thats a lot more prurient and moralizing (and no tits) but i mean
― goya.fr (Lamp), Saturday, 14 January 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
haha 'even today'
LOL this thread
― incredible shrinking man on euphonium (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 14 January 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
Some dude otmfm abt peachy keenness btw
― incredible shrinking man on euphonium (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 14 January 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
I am pretty sure internet porn killed this genre. I miss sex in movies. Like unrealistic sex with lots of thigh high stockings and muted trumpets. These movies shaped a lot of my sexuality! I used to sneak downstairs to watch crap like this on Showtime when I was an adolescent. I said recently that trying to look and feel sexy is my motivation for about 75% of my actions. And it's totally true. I blame backlit sweaty sex scenes and Shannon Tweed.
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
Also SHAME sucked and it wasn't erotic or thrilling
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
downloading JADE right now.
― homosexual II, Saturday, 6 July 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link
you are in for a treat, and the most 1995 movie cast ever
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 6 July 2013 04:39 (ten years ago) link
as I stated a year ago apparently
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 6 July 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
i was going to mention CHLOE but I mentioned it two years ago apparently
― Gukbe, Saturday, 6 July 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
what I am downloading right now
JADEFLASHDANCEBOXING HELENA
its going to be a great weekend
― homosexual II, Saturday, 6 July 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
omg all of LADY BEWARE is on youtube!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9L349DPyuU
― homosexual II, Saturday, 6 July 2013 04:58 (ten years ago) link
if I found a man who thought I was sexy in hair rollers and loved erotic thrillers I think I will have found my soulmate
― homosexual II, Saturday, 6 July 2013 05:01 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvJFgixTAxM
― """""""""""""stalin""""""""""" (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 6 July 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
is this the campiest genre ever
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 August 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
def the most erotic
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 August 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
but, weirdly, NOT the most thrilling
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, 21 August 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
heh
I just meant in the classic Susan Sontag "Notes on Camp" sense. They are p much never actually erotic or thrilling and the ways in which they fail, oh so seriously, at both, is truly a joy.
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 August 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
this year during the erotically thrilling portion of our Thanksgiving Family Film festival I think we're going to cue up In the Cut and/or Body Heat (assuming I can find either tbh). Still never seen Far From Home or Poison Ivy (also hard to find)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 August 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
Poison Ivy is HILARIOUS
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, 21 August 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
this is not the kind of genre that gets deluxe Criterion Edition reissues, let me tell you
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 August 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
if you've ever wanted to see tom skerritt boning down with drew barrymore on the hood of a car then a) poison ivy is gonna be your jam and b) wtf is wrong with you
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 August 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
Far From Home I remember as being very creepy. It's basically a budget Psycho and I bet I would find it hilarious if I watched it now.
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, 21 August 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
in the Cut isn't completely worthless
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 21 August 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
being directed by a woman def makes it a rarity in the genre
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 August 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
I think of erotic thrillers as kind of a parallel genre to my one of my other favorite "terrible" subgenres, the teen sex comedy. Both rooted in the medium's newfound freedom to crassly exploit sexuality but one was "serious" and geared towards "adults" while the other was willfully stupid and geared towards adolescents.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 August 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
not quite sure which one is which there tbh
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 August 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
I just realized that the "love interest" in "Far From Home" is one of the original Broadway cast members of Rent
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, 21 August 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
would 'the big easy' qualify as an erotic thriller? presence of late '80s Ellen Barkin would point to yes, but idk.
― nomar, Monday, 21 August 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
wikipedia has a handy graphic to help us determine the answer
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Erotic_Thriller_Venn_Diagram.png/220px-Erotic_Thriller_Venn_Diagram.png
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 August 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link