When people think of 1990s movies, the first images that come to mind are usually John Travolta and Uma Thurman twisting the night away, or Keanu Reeves contorting his body to dodge a slew of slow-moving bullets. But please, save a little mental space for Michael Douglas’s ass. It was the golden age of the erotic thriller, when it seemed like you couldn’t go to the multiplex without having the option of watching a woman have sex with a man – usually Douglas, sometimes Tom Berenger or a random Baldwin – and then try to ruin and/or end their life.

Yes, erotic thrillers were often ‘problematic’ and almost always self-consciously campy, but damn, they could be fun – and fun, sexy movies are precisely what’s missing from cinemas today. But there are signs of a comeback, hot-and-bothered movies

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