Proper camp 90s thrillers

[Debbie Jellinsky]

I love her vocal style!

 

[Art Decade]

 

[Kratz]

Watching SWF and want a bowl cut

So avant-garde!

 

[Ellie]

Watching SWF and want a bowl cut

So avant-garde!

Stiletto in the eyeball! One of my favs.

 

[jivafox]

A struggling single mom forced to work the pole to win her daughter back becomes embroiled in a murderous political scandal... I like to imagine Demi Moore was told she was appearing in a hard-hitting drama about the sex industry and everyone else was told they were in Showgirls 2.

Watching this tonight!

 

[jyxz]

This is camp trash (although very knowingly so)

 

[Kratz]

Anybody seen this?

 

[jivafox]

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Anybody seen this?

I think @ButterTart is a fan

 

[Debbie Jellinsky]

Malice is fine, worth a watch.

 

[Kratz]

The lifestyles in this genre are so aspirational.

All I want is somebody to steal my baby and try to impale me on a white picket fence.

 

[jivafox]

I’m halfway through Striptease and it is all kinds of iconic.

WHY does she only strip to Annie Lennox songs?!

 

[Ellie]

Anyone remember this from 2009/10? A galant attempt to reboot the genre

 

[jivafox]

Anyone remember this from 2009/10? A galant attempt to reboot the genre

I saw it at the cinema and I was NOT ready for that sapphic love scene between Amanda and Julianne.

 

[Kratz]

I only recently discovered this was based on a novel by IRA LEVIN. Rosemary’s Baby it was not

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Watching this now. What was going on with Sharon Stone's sex acting?

 

[jivafox]

Watching this now. What was going on with Sharon Stone's sex acting?

She HATED Billy Baldwin.

 

[straightorbroken]

And of course even before that

I love Ellen Barkin.

 

[straightorbroken]

Listen (1996)

From the director of Stag (1997), which I actually own, but have never seen.

 

[K.C.]

The cordless phone lol

 

[straightorbroken]

Had no idea Taylor Dayne plays the female lead in Stag (1997). Okay it's on soon.

 

[Alla]

I need to add this madness

 

[jivafox]

Might give this a go this evening

 

[Shoat]

Is that Phoebe Price?

 

[K.C.]

Is that Phoebe Price?

I wish

 

[Ellie]

 

[straightorbroken]

 

[jivafox]

I got this for Christmas which is a 4 hour deep dive documentary into this genre, and covers EVERYTHING from the 40s and even the ropey straight to VHS Shannon Tweed fodder like the above

 

[jyxz]

Omg. This looks must try and find it!

A tough L.A. cop and the teen sister of the ballerina whose murder he's investigating become targeted by a sinister cult that secretly runs the city.

 

[SystemAddict]

I remember a SLEW of campy American television thrillers being released direct to video evey week in the 90s, providing steady income for Donna Mills and Josie Bissett.

THIS was a particular favourite with Alexandra Paul (aka the dull one from Baywatch) being terrorised by a scenery chewing QUEEN who shrieked his way through most of it.

 

[Ellie]

Maybe in addition to @COB‘s Creepers one time we could do a group watch of one of these. Shame we missed it as a Valentine’s special.

 

[Debbie Jellinsky]

Maika Monroe to Star in ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ Remake for 20th Century Studios

Michelle Garza Cervera is directing the feature that reimagines the 1992 thriller that featured Rebecca De Mornay.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Wtf...

 

[Sheena]

EXCUSE ME?

 

[Debbie Jellinsky]

I can't see Maika Monroe in this role, she always seems so subdued, Peyton is an unhinged character! I think Sydney Sweeney would be excellent. The most important question though: Who is CUNTY enough to play Marlene? Aubrey Plaza?

 

[Ellie]

Sydney Sweeney can’t act her way out of a paper bag though. Dakota Fanning could do it, or Saoirse Ronan Good shout on Aubrey Plaza.

 

[Debbie Jellinsky]

Sydney Sweeney can’t act her way out of a paper bag though. Dakota Fanning could do it, or Saoirse Ronan Good shout on Aubrey Plaza.

Um excuse me?

 

[Ellie]

Um excuse me?

I’ve not seen that, but she was utterly dreadful in Anyone But You and Madame Web. Genuinely seen better acting in Hollyoaks.

 

[jivafox]

 

[Ellie]

The Housemaid is a fantastic throwback to this genre. Went to an almost full screening last week and everyone was having a whale of a time. It’s actually much better than the trailer suggests.

 

[Halli]

My Fave Genre - and my faves are the well known ones - Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, Mothers Boys, Single White Female and Hand that Rocks.

 

[Debbie Jellinsky]

The Housemaid is a fantastic throwback to this genre. Went to an almost full screening last week and everyone was having a whale of a time. It’s actually much better than the trailer suggests.

I'm gonna see it this week, but I had to talk a friend into it, Amanda Seyfried AND Sidney Sweeney in one film seems to turn a lot of people off

 

[Ellie]

I'm gonna see it this week, but I had to talk a friend into it, Amanda Seyfried AND Sidney Sweeney in one film seems to turn a lot of people off

I really like Seyfried but I even said above that I’ve never seen Sydney Sweeney in anything where she wasn’t terrible. But she got the assignment here!