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It’s Coming
it’s coming
May 5, 2023
By Jordan Crucchiola
it’s coming
Apr. 8, 2022
Erotic Thrillers Owe Everything to Home Viewers They famously brought sex and death to the multiplex, but their survival depended on late-night cable, down-market sequels, and direct-to-video films.
By Alison Willmore
role call
Apr. 8, 2022
Wayne Knight Answers Every Question We Have About Basic Instinct “I feel like this film couldn’t be made today because the voice against it would be too strong and too listened-to.”
By Matthew Jacobs
it’s coming
Apr. 8, 2022
Kathleen Turner Made the Modern Femme Fatale She rewrote the rules of the cinematic seductress in the 1981 erotic thriller Body Heat.
By Angelica Jade Bastién
it’s coming
Apr. 7, 2022
By Jennifer Vineyard
it’s coming
Apr. 7, 2022
Jennifer Tilly Remembers Her Bound Sex Scene “It’s not two actresses trying to kiss each other in a pretty way — even if I did ask her to prop up my breast!”
By Jennifer Vineyard
it’s coming
Apr. 7, 2022
Harrison Ford Didn’t Do It Or did he? The joy of watching the actor in erotic thrillers like Presumed Innocent is in the way he can keep us guessing how bad he really is.
By Matt Zoller Seitz
it’s coming
Apr. 6, 2022
Erika Christensen Answers Every Question We Have About Swimfan On the appeal of bunny boilers, which teen star got unnecessarily waxed for pool shoots, and the possibility of a sequel.
By Roxana Hadadi
it’s coming
Apr. 5, 2022
When Sex Was Bad for You (and You Wanted It Anyway) Erotic thrillers are dead, but the conversations they started aren’t even close to climax.
By Allison P. Davis
it’s coming
Apr. 5, 2022
What Was It About Michael Douglas? As the go-to fall guy in erotic thrillers, the actor represented the ultimate boomer avatar: the male ego under siege.
By Bilge Ebiri
it’s coming
Apr. 4, 2022
22 Signs You’re Watching an Erotic Thriller If you see Michael Douglas, sex negativity, or vertical blinds, you’re in the right wrong place.
By Carrie Wittmer
it’s coming
Apr. 4, 2022
Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With the Erotic Thriller The industry is still nervous about sex on big screens, leaving streamers to struggle to reboot a genre that died too young.
By Chris Lee