The sex scenes – particularly that between cop Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) and his psychiatrist/counsellor are brutal and borderline rape.ĭutch director Paiul Verhoeven is usually high in the pube count.
It’s a murder film about a manipulative pyschotic woman who controls through her sexuality. The scene where Sharon Stone as writer Katherine Tremell, whilst interrogated at the San Francisco Police Dept, crosses and uncrosses her legs to reveal no knickers is often mentioned in erotic dispatches. I was curious as to why Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct (1992) did not make the list of 10 great sex movies I cited recently and watched it again in case I missed something.
