Fatal Attractions

Fatal Attractions

Four film lovers with a penchant for 90s erotic thrillers take on the much-maligned subgenre one film at a time. A journey of sleaze, social anxiety, appalling fashion, and questionable career choices. Matt, Leslie, Amelie, and Paul pan the cinematic cesspool looking for the gold within. Join them.

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August 27, 2026 46 mins

The gang returns to the world of older, sexy Danish women (Anna absolutely insisted) for a tale of corruption, predation and the lengths someone will go to cover up their indiscretions in May el-Toukhy's 2019 film Queen of Hearts.

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The gang turn to formalist experimentation for their latest foray into the world of erotic cinema, specifically looking over the quasi-desconstructionist giallo from filmmaking duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani with their 2009 film Amer.

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June 25, 2026 43 mins

The gang check out the dreamy exploitation story of a teenage sex worker, the boy who wants to save her, and the maniac cop who wants her dead in Katt Shea's 1990 film Streets.

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May 28, 2026 52 mins

The gang welcome back writer/director/actor Emily Bennett to discuss the cycle of emotional vulnerability and unresolved grief contained within the titular strip club in Atom Egoyan's 1994 film Exotica.

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And check out her podcast The Tower.

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April 23, 2026 46 mins

The gang head into an atmospheric world that throws back to 70s European erotic cinema and Jess Franco in a study of comfort and kink in a relationship threatening to come apart in Peter Strickland's 2014 film The Duke of Burgundy.

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March 25, 2026 47 mins

The gang stay in the 1980s for the scuzzy tale of exploitation that also doubles up as a cineliterate skewering of exploitation cinema, in Larry Cohen's 1984 film Special Effects.

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February 26, 2026 41 mins

The gang head back to a banner year for the erotic thriller subgenre, and they've got a new permanent co-host to help talk all about the slick veneer and strange hair on display in the often overlooked film - Ridley Scott's 1987 Someone to Watch Over Me.

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January 29, 2026 64 mins

The gang start 2026 with a bang, welcoming very special guest, actor/writer/director Annapurna Sriram to discuss the many weird and troubling facets of Asia Argento's 2000 film of artistic indulgence and naked catharsis... Scarlet Diva.

Follow Annapurna on Instagram.

Keep an eye out for Annpurna's upcoming movie Fucktoys.

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July 3, 2025 55 mins

The gang are joined by special guest, erotic thriller enthusiast and fan of the podcast Livvy, to investigate the real truths of power, loyalty and who looks better in Navy whites in Roger Donaldson's classic 1987 thriller No Way Out.

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Read Livvy's blog.

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May 15, 2025 43 mins

The gang are joined by special guest, author/podcaster Anna Cale, to dive into the world of classical music and petty revenge in Denis Dercourt's 2006 film The Page Turner.

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April 17, 2025 64 mins

The old gang reunites as Amelie comes back, even if just for one show, to talk about Nicole Kidman's latest foray into the erotic thriller genre, this time in the shape of Halina Reijn's Babygirl.

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February 6, 2025 53 mins

The gang joins up with friend and fellow-podcaster Catrin Lowe so they can head into the place where erotic thriller crosses over with true crime as they look at Bob Fosse's grim and sweaty Star 80.

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November 14, 2024 66 mins

The gang welcome in friend of the podcast, audio porn producer and sex blogger Girl on the Net, to discuss the nature of identity and manipulation, the growing ubiquity of AI, and the portrayal of the camming industry in Daniel Goldhaber's 2018 film Cam.

Follow Girl on the Net on Mastodon or Bluesky.

Check out her work.

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August 15, 2024 51 mins

The gang are joined by special guest writer/culture critic Kayleigh Donaldson as they delve into the world of 18th Century France and legendary provocateur/filth-peddler, the Marquis de Sade, for a tale of smut, censorship and dehumanisation in Philip Kaufman's 2000 film Quills.

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June 20, 2024 86 mins

The gang take a trip with special guest writer/director/actor Emily Bennett (Alone With You, Accidental Stars, LVRS), looking to discuss colour, unreliable narrators and the generaly cursed nature of David Lynch's nightmarish vision of jealousy, guilt and murder in 1997's Lost Highway.

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The gang made it... reached 100 episodes... and to celebrate they remember their favourite episodes, consider the state of the erotic thriller in the current world, and finally get into their long-awaited discussion of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy.

And there's even a special announcement, too.

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March 7, 2024 60 mins

The gang are joined by special guest, casting director and podcaster Timothy Evans (@timothyeraw), to veer away from the thrillers but stay firmly in the erotic camp to discuss fringe sexuality and human need in Steven Shainberg's darkly comic and sexy as hell 2002 film Secretary.

To watch the trailer for the short film mentioned in the show, Truth Serum, click here.

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January 18, 2024 61 mins

The gang are joined by special guest, author Linda Belhadj, for an unsettling journey into jealousy and psychosis in Claude Chabrol's L'Enfer.

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November 16, 2023 59 mins

The gang consider the damage intended and the damage inflicted in the rarely discussed tale of a cop going undercover in the 70s New York leather bar scene in William Friedkin's Cruising.

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August 24, 2023 52 mins

The gang return for a look at the seductive vampiric charms of Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie in Tony Scott's The Hunger.

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