Fatal Attraction (1987)
The film that kick started the erotic thriller genre and became an eighties phenomenon. Directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Michael Douglas as a happily married company exec who has a weekend affair with a publishing company editor (Glenn Close) whom he first met earlier in the day. It's when Douglas attempts to break off the relationship that Close turns from clingy to extreme as her psyche begins to erode.
Glenn Close is brilliant as she descends into lunacy, the bunny boiling scene has gone down in macabre cinematic history and although you know it's coming it still thrills and kind of shocks with it.
The film sports that very 80's look, both in a fashion sense and a filming style, with many scenes looking tv movie quality even though the blu-ray is supposedly a 4K restoration by Lyne himself. However it doesn't take away from what is still a slick, powerful and well made thriller which ups the suspense the longer it plays.
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