Streamers are struggling to reboot a genre that died too young.
Make Hollywood Horny Again
A week-long celebration of erotic thrillers.
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When did the erotic thriller disappear from Hollywood?
Every once in a while one of these films get made.
Racy projects with did-he-or-didnt-he?/will-she-or-wont-she?
Can we have an erotic thriller?
And there were, quite frankly, very few that fit both bills.
Which are to both entertain and, to a degree, titillate.
At the same time, Jen Salke said, Hey, why arent people making more erotic thrillers?
c’mon find some for us.
I walk in going, Hey, why arent you making erotic thrillers?
And soThe Voyeursended up getting fast-tracked.
Id botch a take, and Id be like, That was perfect.
But if I angled them just a little bit, itll look more like theyre having sex.
Female development executives are being positioned at the forefront too.
(Spoiler: Alex is first drowned in a bathtub and then shot to death by Dans wife.)
In the original, Jeff Bridges plays a charming preppie or is he a psychopath?
It works better now that were being a little more faithful to the original.
But I feel that someone is going to crack it.
He agrees that the answer lies not in the audience.
Its notwhat will it take to repopularize the genre?
People are taking notice and looking for them actively, Mohan says.
Instead, it lies somewhere in Hollywood executive offices.
will appeal both to moviegoers of yesteryear and younger generations today.
Nonetheless, Mohan is certain: The cinematic language of these films is something that has disappeared.
I think movies should be sexier.
