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.
Episodes
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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.
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.
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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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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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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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The gang return to a previously considered filmmaker in his first English language film, considering the sensual qualities and compelling unease within a very dysfunctional family in Park Chan-wook's Stoker.
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The gang bring along new special guest, podcaster Daryl Bär of SuddenDoubleDeep and Is Paul Dano Okay?, to discuss religious fetishism, metaphorical castration and subtlety in Paul Verhoeven's The Fourth Man.
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The gang turn to wartime China for a tale of deception, infidelity and the most costly betrayal in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution.
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The gang bring along a special guest, writer/editor/podcaster Kristen Lopez (@Journeys_Film), as they consider the emotional fallout of infidelity, betrayal and running while naked in Louis Malle's Damage.
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The gang ditch their schedule in favour of looking over a story of lust, love and, above all else, luck in Woody Allen's Match Point.
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The gang finally round out the trilogy, discussing the ambiguity of star ratings, intention in storytelling, and the very nature of suffering through someone else's art in Barbara Bialowas and Tomasz Mandes's The Next 365 Days.
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The gang discuss the use of language in erotic thrillers, different perspectives on when a character looks at the audience, and the finer points of using a bicycle in cold weather in Atom Egoyan's Chloe.
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The gang welcome back special guest and friend of the show, Michael Mohan (writer/director of The Voyeurs), to discuss the immaculately filmed tale of murder, betrayal, and why you should never piss off the cool girl in David Fincher's Gone Girl.
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