Haiku Movie Review: Erotic Thriller Edition

In today's Haiku Movie Review, we pay homage to the erotic thriller, that weird genre that felt suspense is better if you add a dose of gratuitous sex to it.

Epidemic in the late 1980's and early 1990's and almost always directed by Adrian Lyne, the erotic thriller has not worn well.  At some point, it dawned on America that justice and sex were odd bedfellows and not necessarily mutually informing.

Still, it's fun to revisit, so here's today's seventeen syllable salute to the leggy, breathy, belief that evil and good are best computed in bed, with a cigarette to finish. 

So many candidates, but only four finalists.

Really. He's a nice man. Adrian Lyne directs Mickey Rourke and Kim Bassinger

9 1/2 WEEKS
Bad boy blindfolds girl,
manipulates, showing dough
does not equal class.

You don't bring me flowers. Glenn gets Close in scene that kept businessmen chaste for almost two weeks in 1987. Adrian Lyne directs.

FATAL ATTRACTION
Business meeting gets
electric. Man tries naughty:
wife, rabbit suffer.

Going Up: Madonna and Willem Dafoe get naughty in lifts, on cars, with broken glass, and hot wax. It's not nice, if you like that sort of thing.BODY OF EVIDENCE
Lawyer Dafoe likes
juvenile, painful Wild Thing.
Madonna with child.

Leg Up. I am quite sure I was not the only one who thought she was more trashy than sexy.
BASIC INSTINCT
Guilty, I go to
the police station. I take
off my underpants.

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