Erotic Thrillers on blu-ray & 4K UHD

[Richard--W]

Erotic Thrillers




From the late 1980s thru the 1990s HBO, CineMax, Showtime and other cable TV
networks produced a number of small-budget exercises in noir stylization and
plotting that came to be known as the Erotic Thriller. The new genre quickly
migrated to the new booming home video market. Independent producers,
funded by cable networks and home video labels sometimes in partnership with
studios, produced countless Erotic Thrillers. They were shot as 35mm feature films,
aired without commercial interruption and verged on the soft-core. Perhaps the
most famous was Red Shoe Diaries which begat a more explicit cable TV series.
The Erotic Thrillers had a large female audience, perhaps because it was mostly a
female-lead genre. The felonious femme fatales in these films made bankable stars
out of Shannon Tweed, Maria Ford, Shannon Whirry, Brigitte Bako and others. When
the films came to home video they proved to be best-sellers and high-volume rentals.
I started this thread to corral the genre on blu-ray, but alas, not one single Erotic
thriller of the period has been released on blu-ray. Not one. But the genre migrated
over to feature films. The features are not always as much fun as the cable and
direct-to-VHS films, but at least they're on blu-ray.

4K UHD

Related Threads:
Official Film Noir on blu-ray
Neo Film Noir 1961-2035 on blu-ray & 4K UHD

Further Reading:
The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema -by Linda Ruth Williams
Sexy Thrills: Undressing the Erotic-Thriller - by Nina Martin

Documentary History of the Erotic Thriller:



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