Fatal Attractions

The gang finally turn to one of the big names of the erotic film genre, and consider the legacy and filmic blueprint to be found in Zalman King's Wild Orchid.       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 are joined by special guest, critic and author Mark Searby ( @Mark_Searby ), for a look at the film that served as a turning point in the career of Al Pacino... Harold Becker's Sea of Love.   Visit Mark Searby's website for more info on his work and book, Al Pacino: The Movies Behind the Man     Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By A...

The gang returns to the world of damaged psyches and body horror as they look at the troubled twin world in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers.       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 world of 1980's Brian De Palma, rich in visual storytelling, decadent morality, and questionable social perspectives in genre giant Dressed to Kill.       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 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/