This series looks back at the 1990s and its influence on the generation of people who came of age during the decade. My cinematic obsession began as a teenager in the 1990s, which coincided with the Golden Age of the erotic thriller—which was often also the neo-noir erotic thriller. It started in the late 1980s and peaked in the early to mid-'90s. Movies like Fatal Attraction (1987), Sea of Love (1989), Body of Evidence (1993), Romeo Is Bleeding (1993), and Malice (1993), to name a few, flooded theaters with a provocative mix of oversexed men and women doing really terrible things for money. Certainly, Sharon Stone starred in two of the most popular erotic thrillers of that time, Basic Instinct (1992) and Sliver (1993), but when I look back today, one actor seems most symbolic of this era: Linda Fiorentino. Her performances in movies like Chain of Desire (1992 and pictured above), The Last Seductio n (1994), Bodily Harm (...
we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars