a steamy starter pack of twenty underseen erotic thrillers • Journal • A Magazine • , Life in canada

A few months ago, timed around Valentine’s Day, I dropped the first of three starter packs around the erotic thriller. That list focused on films that were logged by 50,000 members or more and contained genre heavy hitters like Basic Instinct, Body Heat and Wild Things.

The erotic thriller has been a pervasive entity in cinema, domestic and abroad, for over forty years now, so one starter pack didn’t feel like enough space to devote to the wily nature of the genre, especially with so many independently produced and/or internationally financed films that are ripe for discovery for so many people.

This second list centers on films logged by between twenty and 50,000 members on , offering a deeper dive into the genre for those who have made their way through the initial twenty or, perhaps especially, those who had seen them before the list even dropped. Note that there will be one more, final, erotic thriller starter pack to come, so there are plenty more even deeper cuts on the horizon.