'An erotic thriller'

i think the two shifts totally go hand in hand: i absolutely associate the 80s new wavification of rock with the mainstreaming of the erotic thriller -- not least bcz the texture of music videos permeated the early 80s films in this vein (and vice versa)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz9VN40nCA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaPTELylZ1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Z6MAK58gs

Excellent point but you have inexplicably omitted Sheena Easton's "Sugar Walls."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Alq8rJIbo

"Self Control" definitely. All that exciting danger a liberated woman encounters.

Definitely why Dressed to Kill fits.

Also, random notes:

Jonathan Rosenbaum on Basic Instinct: https://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/how-to-write-a-3-million-script/Content?oid=879416

Fatal Attraction is the all-time hit of this genre, isn't it?

And given how long it took Kubrick to make Eyes WideShut, he must've started in on it around that time.

So why did "In the Cut" end Meg Ryan's career? It's not great but she is not particularly terrible, nor is it by any means embarrassing. It's just a creepy little movie.

It didn't, iirc. I want to say the nail in the coffin - beyond just her entering upper middle age and getting written out of roles like Renee Russo on down - was a few years earlier, with "Proof of Life," when her affair with Russel Crowe (right?) got her branded the proverbial other woman and she became tabloid fodder. I suppose it's more accurate to say "In the Cut" killed Campion's Hollywood hopes.

It's well-made and directed imo

It was fine, iirc. But maybe, especially a few years post Piano, so anonymously 'erotic thriller" that no one cared. That's why I don't think it's Meg that it killed, any more than, say, Sliver killed Sharon Stone's career. Which, of course, it didn't, if you include "Casino," but that was an outlier. It feels that Sliver (like Jade did for Linda Fiorentino) really reduced her to a joke, even if Joe Eszterhas was ultimately to blame for both. And those plus Showgirls killed his career as much as it did theirs.

That is, all those movies took down their respective auteurs and while not necessarily their leads, they seemed to go down with them.

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/From-Basic-Instinct-to-Showgirls-the-15865290.php

Adrian Lyne and Ben Affleck are bringing it back, baby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Water_(2021_film)

Further to which

Crazy gossip from work I can’t not share: at least one of the big streamers wants to bring back erotic thrillers. (Can’t wait for a new Adrian Lyne movie)

— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) May 8, 2021

let's goooooooo

"I hear you're a...big streamer..."

from peppe the piss pig, a watersports-themed erotic thriller

straight to streaming erotic thrillers sounds like a goldmine

this is definitely Prime if it's true

hope all erotic thriller fans are aware of the delightful and odd podcast NIGHT TIME FOR ONE
http://nighttimeforone.com/

I love Prime it's such a weird chaotic mess, there are some crazy weird 70s movies down in the Prime basement

the voyeurs which has just popped up on amazon prime def looks like it’s got this vibe

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-xndtrXsAAc2VH.jpg

C5 have been repeating Red Shoe Diaries, just in case you missed David Duchovny reading steamy letters to a dog.

read Michael Mohan as Michael Chabon at first

https://deadline.com/2021/12/ben-affleck-ana-de-armas-movie-deep-water-heading-to-streaming-1234890214/

Here we go:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/you-must-remember-this-new-season-erotic-movies-1235107060/

Some films discussed in the season will be American Gigolo, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fatal Attraction, as well as works from Steven Soderbergh and Brian De Palma, among others. Each episode will focus on one year, discussing movies and stars, with the season culminating in the year 1999, focusing on Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.

hmm

no skerritt no credibility

I was actually just thinking about Jade the other day and Linda Fiorentino, surely one of the undisputed queens of the genre

Fast Times seems somewhat out of place there

Well the net seems to be cast a bit broadly, no bad thing.

last american virgin seems to fit the bill, as well