We’ve compiled a list of 15 movies you can watch right now with various streaming subscriptions, plus a little bonus at the end for the ones you shouldn’t need anyone to tell you about. (Trust me: I’m on the asexual spectrum, and even I can’t resist this hot and bothered section at the video store.) The notion of “guilty pleasures” is a waste of time - love what you love and shout it out loud - but if there’s one class of movies that easily slides into that folder, wrapped in black paper to protect the sensitive eyes of passersby, it’s this one.Īnd while we may not get as many new erotic thrillers as we’d like (or deserve!), there’s a lurid and sweaty archive waiting for you to access it at any time.
It’s the movie theater in old Times Square where any shade of person could go to watch something sexy, transgressive, and built for pure satisfaction. It is the handshake between film snobs and trash collectors. It is the bridge between the high and the low.
A subgenre that wasn’t necessarily invented but flew its closest to the sun in the 1990s is the grand unifying experience of cinema in so many ways. We all feel it, that emptiness in our souls where the erotic thriller should be. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo by Amazon Prime Video
Sydney Sweeney and Justice Smith in The Voyeurs.
