Fatal Attractions

The gang head to the wealthy side of town where boats sail, booze is drunk, and implausible murder schemes are plotted in Bob Swaim's Masquerade.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang head on down to New Orleans for a tale of corrupt cops and sultry nights in Jim McBride's The Big Easy.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang finally get a look at another of the few films revolving around two female characters: one the femme fatale who kills for money; the other the cop obsessed with stopping her in Bob Rafelson's Black Widow.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang go uncharacteristically contemporary by checking out the '80s-set psychosexual thriller recently added to Netflix in the shape of Wash Westmoreland's Earthquake Bird.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang head to the beginning of the 80s to look at the fashionably hollow lifestyle of one of God's lonely men in Paul Schrader's American Gigolo.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang head to an early success for writer Joe Eszterhas, which set the template for his bigger successes to come. Courtroom drama, murder and intrigue in Richard Marquand's Jagged Edge.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang go period by looking at the tale of pre-Revolutionary French aristocracy and their various shenanigans of exploitation, sadism and love in Stephen Frears's Dangerous Liaisons.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang head back out to sea for the close quarters tension of a married couple besieged by a handsome but unstable stranger on their own ship in Phillip Noyce's Dead Calm.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang take a turn towards the supernatural, metaphysical and psycho-sexual peculiarities of animal instincts and strange desires... so, obviously it's Paul Schrader's Cat People.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang go weirdly method by looking at a film set during a ridiculous heatwave, during an actual ridiculous heatwave... Lawrence Kasdan's seminal Body Heat.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang look to the work of transgressive enfant terrible of cinema Ken Russell and his story of a cartoonish prostitute and a mad street preacher... and some other guy named Bobby - Crimes of Passion.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang return to the work of Adrian Lyne yet again to look at one of the most often referenced and yet seemingly least remembered films of the canon -  Nine 1/2 Weeks.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang finally head back into the sleek glamour of the 1980s and start things off with a bang, looking into a work of voyeurism, murder, and back projection - Brian De Palma's Body Double.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang celebrate their 50th episode by taking a look at the parody comedy that satirises all the tropes and cliches of the erotic thriller genre in Carl Reiner's Fatal Instinct.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang go to work to look at the story of an exec with too much work who finds himself with an assistant who can do the work just fine... perhaps a little too fine... in Tom Holland's The Temp.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang look to another genre hybrid of a sort, taking on a film that combines the tropes of the erotic thriller and treats them with comedic strokes, layering intrigue with farce in Roland Joffe's Goodbye Lover.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang head back to the home turf of the 90s and take a swing a peculiar genre hybrid, mixing erotic thriller with sf action with Roger Donaldson's 1995 Species.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang stay in the noughts for one more week to look over the attempted erotic meanderings and unintentional laughs of Chen Kaige's Killing Me Softly.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang finally break the seal on their can of Brian De Palma by looking at one from the latter era of the director's career, following a dangerous woman who's bad news to all around her - Femme Fatale.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang look to one of the world's best female directors for her take on the erotic thriller, taking in murder, desire, and the blurred line that can exist between the two... Jane Campion's In the Cut.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang return once again to the extra-marital temptation and crazed stalkers of their progenitors, only this time it's Idris Elba who's caught between Ali Larter and Beyonce in Steve Shill's Obsessed.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang return to the ever-giving font of director Paul Verhoeven as he tells the tale of a megalomaniacal pervert/brilliant scientist who goes invisible and then becomes much worse... Hollow Man.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang stick around in the noughts for the high school take on their namesake film, with an obsessive girl setting her sights on the swim team's big star in John Polson's Swimfan.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang return to the well of Adrian Lyne for his considered take on his preferred focus of infidelity and other things that can't be taken back - Unfaithful.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The gang finally take their first steps into the new Millennium, turning their attention to the lamented, lambasted, and wholly derided 2007 effort from Chris Siverston - I Know Who Killed Me.       Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/