MIND & BODY Pt 17: The Rise and Fall of the Erotic Thriller (1987 - 1995)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This week things get sleazy, steamy and very, very camp. Mike is joined by Catherine Bray to discuss some of the classic erotic thrillers of the 80s and 90s, including Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct and Showgirls.
Keep a look out for Catherine's upcoming long-form video essay for the BBC, GUILT FREE PLEASURES. For more of Catherine's essays, check out BBC INSIDE CINEMA, which includes her piece on THE EROTIC THRILLER.
Music by Jack Whitney.
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| 0:00.0 | The In the late 1980s something strange started happening in the horror genre |
| 0:27.1 | a new sub-genre began to emerge one that blended a sleazy pawn style aesthetic with 80 slasher levels of gore and |
| 0:36.7 | violence. But these movies weren't niche or grindhouse. They were made by mainstream |
| 0:41.9 | Hollywood studios starring respected A-list actors. |
| 0:47.0 | While horror franchises were beginning to run themselves into the ground, |
| 0:51.0 | cinema audiences were instead treated to movies like basic instinct and |
| 0:56.0 | fatal attraction. Films with plenty of Hollywood gloss and sheen, despite being filled to the |
| 1:02.0 | brim with sizzling sex and blood splattery gore. |
| 1:07.0 | Oh! Oh God! |
| 1:15.0 | Oh God! |
| 1:17.0 | Oh God! Oh God! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, God! Join me as we continue exploring the mind and body and we look at the late 80s and |
| 1:29.0 | early 90s boom of the erotic thriller. |
| 1:40.0 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. |
| 1:45.6 | If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome. In this podcast we explore and |
| 1:50.0 | dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-jomras |
| 1:55.0 | one series at a time. |
| 1:57.4 | We are currently in the middle of our sixth series which explores both psychological and body horror, |
| 2:03.4 | aka the horror of the mind and the body. |
| 2:06.8 | And this week we're bringing you a very special episode. |
| 2:09.5 | No deep dive discussions on any particular films. |
| 2:12.9 | Just a little closer look at a really interesting movement |
| 2:15.7 | that occurred around the late 80s, early 90s, |
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