It’s a truly fabulous film…and should be much,much better known!
As should Linda Fiorentina, but for reasons pertaining to her lack of both blondage and cleavage (which she said herself in an interview from aeons ago!), she was never really given the meaty roles she deserved.
In the aftermath of Basic Instinct there were a few Hollywood imitations, but the straight to video market was flooded with erotic thrillers to the point that cable channels created time slots late at night for them like Showtime After Hours, and Skinemax.
Penta acknowledges this in his article. I would guess that 600 of the 700 were direct to video. But once you start looking at Hollywood studio genres that were popular in the 90s and early 2000s like legal thrillers and murder mysteries you will find a lot of them embedded the erotic thriller formula of sex plus violence and soft core sex. And yeah, SkinaMax was 80% cheap erotic thrillers. (Ah, the good old days)
Yeah the good old days where it was easy to find entertainment. The overabundance of streaming services is overwhelming, and they don't deliver the gratuitous nudity of those shows. I was growing up when those were popular, so it was exciting to tune in at night and see this whole other side to the cable channels they kept hidden in the daytime programming. Stuff that looked cheaper than the Hollywood releases of the daytime, but was far more exciting than Hollywood product.
It’s a truly fabulous film…and should be much,much better known!
As should Linda Fiorentina, but for reasons pertaining to her lack of both blondage and cleavage (which she said herself in an interview from aeons ago!), she was never really given the meaty roles she deserved.
Love both her and the film!
I didn’t realize until I did this article that she was the coroner in Men in Black. She was wonderful in that too.
Thanks for your appreciation.
Whoops! I clearly done love her that much if I can’t get her name right…ha-ha!
Fiorentino!
In the aftermath of Basic Instinct there were a few Hollywood imitations, but the straight to video market was flooded with erotic thrillers to the point that cable channels created time slots late at night for them like Showtime After Hours, and Skinemax.
Penta acknowledges this in his article. I would guess that 600 of the 700 were direct to video. But once you start looking at Hollywood studio genres that were popular in the 90s and early 2000s like legal thrillers and murder mysteries you will find a lot of them embedded the erotic thriller formula of sex plus violence and soft core sex. And yeah, SkinaMax was 80% cheap erotic thrillers. (Ah, the good old days)
Yeah the good old days where it was easy to find entertainment. The overabundance of streaming services is overwhelming, and they don't deliver the gratuitous nudity of those shows. I was growing up when those were popular, so it was exciting to tune in at night and see this whole other side to the cable channels they kept hidden in the daytime programming. Stuff that looked cheaper than the Hollywood releases of the daytime, but was far more exciting than Hollywood product.