“I’d like to say I had foresight and (anticipated the trend),” she says, good-naturedly.
Shannon Tweed was one of home video’s most rented erotic thriller goddesses. These quickie cash-ins catapulted a new strata of actors to home video’s A-list their seductively posed, scantily clad bodies depicted on a video box, coupled with a provocative tag line, would put asses on the couch. “I was good and I was fast,” Wynorski tells Vanity Fair. Following the release of Basic Instinct, he got the call to do Sins of Desire ( “She was seduced into a world of sexual adventure. Before Basic Instinct, Jim Wynorski was best-known for such horror cult favorites as Chopping Mall, Sorority House Massacre 2, and 976-Evil 2. “For people who didn’t want to make the deep dive into porn, the erotic thriller gave them a great opportunity to be a little naughty.”įor prolific and proficient B-movie directors, the erotic thriller was another color to add to their palette. “It was a huge business,” says Thomas Arnold, publisher of Home Media Magazine, which has covered the industry since 1979. Independent producers obliged with a spate of films and sequels that kept the product pipeline primed.
Retailers needed titles beyond the major studio releases to meet consumer demand-and the demand was for R-rated erotic thrillers, ones decidedly missing the patina of early 90s prestige awarded to Basic Instinct, thanks to its big-name cast, director ( Paul Verhoeven), and screenwriter ( Joe Eszterhas, who received a then-unprecedented $3 million for his screenplay). The home-video industry, then in its heyday, wanted in.
era’s most rewound, replayed, and parodied frames of film, via Stone’s instantly infamous interrogation scene. A cop who can’t resist the danger”), starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone in her siren-making role, was the ninth biggest box- office hit of the year, earning almost $118 million domestically-and likely producing the V.H.S. The reviews weren’t all that hot (“Brutal and brutalizing,” wrote Dave Kehr in the Chicago Tribune), but the sex, violence, and controversy over its perceived homophobia and misogyny were-and that was enough to put asses in seats.īasic Instinct (tagline: “A brutal murder. For a certain subset of the population, the 1992 phenomenon Basic Instinct-released exactly 25 years ago-was the movie of the century.
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