If you would like a quick snapshot of how much the tastes of the moviegoing public have changed in the past 30 years, reflect on this. The biggest film of March 1992 was Basic Instinct, an erotic thriller featuring an established movie star in explicit onscreen couplings with a sexy up-and-comer. The scribe claimed that “Verhoeven’s intention is to make …
Basic 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 …
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