Basic Instinct defined the erotic thriller – and killed it
BBCBasic Instinct defined the erotic thriller – and killed it Alamy With a new restoration being released, Paul Verhoeven's film has kept the world talking for three decades. "Without Basic Instinct, there is no way the erotic thriller would have been as big as it was in the 1990s, and there is no way we would be talking about it now." Alamy Basic Instinct's preposterous plot includes over-the-top backstories for both Sharon Stone's femme fatale and Michael Douglas's cop The first stirrings of the genre could be felt in the 1980s when on-screen sex and violence were getting together in all sorts of steamy new positions. Between the actors' bravery and Verhoeven's uninhibited Dutch sensibility, Basic Instinct ensured that the sex in every subsequent erotic thriller would seem timid in comparison.
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