Facing the Enemy (2001)

Directed by

Robert Malenfant

Genre

drama film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a man whose life becomes entangled with a woman leading him into a web of deceit and peril. Their romantic involvement is shadowed by criminal schemes and betrayal.

tenseseductivesuspensefuldarknoirishdangerousriskyintimate

What happens

The erotic thriller is a film subgenre defined as a film that "combines romanticized, 'erotic' appeal with a dangerous 'thriller' narrative—a "pleasure/danger" principle". The elements of bodily danger and pleasure are central to the plot. Most erotic thrillers contain scenes of softcore sex, though the frequency and explicitness of those scenes varies. British academic Linda Ruth Williams described erotic thriller films as "noirish stories of sexual intrigue incorporating some form of criminality or duplicity, often as the flimsy framework for onscreen softcore sex". The word "erotic" began to adhere to "thriller" during the 1980s to describe a sudden boom in noir-like thriller films with sexually provocative content. The late 1980s to the mid-1990s are regarded as the "classic period" of the erotic thriller, and the most recognizable films of the genre, such as Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, and The Last Seduction were released in this era. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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