While Deep Water was advertised as a down-the-middle piece of thrilling erotica (a trailer promising murder! and handjobs!), it’s possible this is the weirdest movie Lyne has ever made. ( Flashdance may not be an erotic thriller, but think about what scene(s) you remember most from it!) Thankfully for Lyne, he has stayed making movies long enough to work in the era of Ana de Armas, who simply loves to accept sexually audacious roles. From the sexy thrillers ( Fatal Attraction, Unfaithful) to the smoldering dramas ( Indecent Proposal, 9 1/2 Weeks), this man has one mode, and that mode is getting people to undress for the camera. ![]() Let’s see more sweaty movies based on real-life gay nuns!įew filmmakers have staked their claim to eroticism more fully than Adrian Lyne. Brown that has a very made-for-TV erotic-thriller title, Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, and even incorporates a sex toy carved from a wooden Virgin Mary statue. That’s a big problem, but where Benedetta really causes a stir is when she starts showing signs of the stigmata and having provocative visions that inflame basically all of society around the church. The movie focuses on a 17th-century nun (the titular character) who runs afoul of the Catholics when she starts having sex with another nun in her convent. Benedetta is mostly the former, and Verhoeven is taking us all to church. Is there anyone out there who does eroticism like Paul Verhoeven? The man makes trash cinema for the thinking film fan, and it’s a delight that his two main modes are basically lustful cinema that indulges in psychosexual thrills or satirizing extreme violence for American audiences. It might not get the headlines the way some of Stone’s other work does, but it’s well worth the time. Directed by Phillip Noyce, this is a real genre journeyman’s movie. Sliver has lots of voyeurism and Tom Berenger being a total grease ball. One of them is the handsome Zeke Hawkins (William Baldwin), who starts to fervently pursue Carly as more tenants end up dead. Carly moves into a new apartment building shortly after one of its tenants, who looks shockingly like her, falls to her death from a high-rise balcony, and immediately catches the attention of several male residents in the building. In Sliver, Stone stars as Carly Norris, a New York City woman who works in the erotic-thriller genre’s favorite chic profession: book publishing. It’s a Sharon Stone movie from the 1990s, which means there is plenty more eroticism on the horizon. So whether you’re an experienced collector in the field of film erotics or you’re just now starting to dip your toe in the water, light a candle for Linda Fiorentino and burn a small offering for Adrian Lyne: It’s time to watch some movies that require you to close the shades. We’ve compiled a list of 21 movies you can watch right now with various streaming subscriptions, plus four more bonus entries at the end for the ones you shouldn’t need anyone to tell you about. (Trust me: I’m on the asexual spectrum, and even I can’t resist this hot and bothered section at the video store.) The notion of “guilty pleasures” is a waste of time - love what you love and shout it out loud - but if there’s one class of movies that easily slides into that folder, wrapped in black paper to protect the sensitive eyes of passersby, it’s this one.Īnd while we may not get as many new erotic thrillers as we’d like (or deserve!), there’s a lurid and sweaty archive waiting for you to access it at any time. ![]() It’s the movie theater in old Times Square where any shade of person could go to watch something sexy, transgressive, and built for pure satisfaction. ![]() It is the handshake between film snobs and trash collectors. It is the bridge between the high and the low. A subgenre that wasn’t necessarily invented but flew its closest to the sun in the 1990s is the grand unifying experience of cinema in so many ways. We all feel it, that emptiness in our souls where the erotic thriller should be. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo by Amazon Prime Video Sydney Sweeney and Justice Smith in The Voyeurs.
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