The artistry behind the best erotic horror-thrillers is not to be devalued. While movies like The Boy Next Door or The Handmaiden strive to maintain a...
Adria Arjona (“Andor”, Blink Twice) and Kingsley Ben-Adir (Bob Marley: One Love, Barbie) have been set to star in Scorn. Production begins at the end of...
Gone Girl author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn is teaming with Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky on an original erotic thriller, Deadline reports. Plot details are nonexistent at this...
Erotic thrillers are a bit of a lost art, enjoying a Golden Age in the ’80s before tapering off in the mid-’90s around the time the...
Bleecker Street is unleashing erotic horror thriller Bone Lake in theaters this Halloween season, and the brand new trailer promises winners come first as sex and violence...
There’s a hypnotic dreaminess to several sequences in director Justin Kelly’s new film, Pretty Thing. Aided immensely by a twinkly harp and piano score courtesy of...
Loosely translated, “Mea culpa” is Latin for “it’s my fault.” It’s something of a cheeky title for Tyler Perry’s Netflix Erotic Thriller Mea Culpa, considering that...
As Sex Crimes has evolved, it has been exciting to see how different Erotic Thrillers play to – or subvert – the conventions of the subgenre....
On the surface, there’s very little about either Open Your Eyes or Vanilla Sky that screams Erotic Thriller. Both Alejandro Amenábar’s 1997 Spanish original and Cameron...
Judge Bodil Backer (Bracha van Doesburgh) seemingly has it all: she’s a no-nonsense Judge and has a great home life with her doctor husband Milan (Nasrdin...
Maple Syrup Massacre is an editorial series where Joe Lipsett dissects the themes, conventions and contributions of new and classic Canadian horror films. Spoilers follow… There’s a moment, very late...
Brother Fucker After an amazing August filled with unusual titles like Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers, Shiva Baby, and Stoker, last week Trace and I kicked off our latest...
The Ultimate Time Capsule. We closed out August with a look at the horror elements in the non-horror film Shiva Baby, the trans empowerment of Sleepaway Camp...
For the first time since beginning this editorial series, we’re discussing a documentary rather than a fiction film. That’s because Yellow Veil just released a supersized...
For all of the murder and crime that occurs in Erotic Thrillers, more often than not, the police are barely present in the subgenre. If the...
In the pantheon of Erotic Thrillers, Body of Evidence is an odd one. It falls into the even more niche sub-category of courtroom thrillers, which spend...
On the surface, David Cronenberg’s 1996 adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s 1973 novel Crash is a drama about an unlikely group of people who come together over...
Considering how long I’ve been writing this editorial series, it’s wild that this is the first entry tackling Brian De Palma. While there’s a history of...
Judging from the marketing of The Tutor, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the film for a contemporary queer update of a film like The Crush (1993)....
Gator Chic. After kicking off the month of March with a look at some classic queer cinema in Robert Wise’s The Haunting, we unlocked the Patreon...
Spend enough time charting the corners of any subgenre and you’ll quickly discover that not all entries are created equal. Due to the sexually charged nature...
Back in June, when this series covered Wild Things, I introduced neo-noirs as a response in the 70s and 80s to the noirs of the 40s...
Magna Cum Laude Pussy. We’re still recovering from the fact that we got to talk to Chucky creator Don Mancini for 90 minutes last week, so between...
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In the previous installment of my ongoing Sex Crimes column, I explored a failed effort to revitalize the erotic thriller sub-genre in anticipation of Deep Water,...
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