![]() “It was a huge business,” says Thomas Arnold, publisher of Home Media Magazine, which has covered the industry since 1979. Independent producers obliged with a spate of films and sequels that kept the product pipeline primed. Retailers needed titles beyond the major studio releases to meet consumer demand-and the demand was for R-rated erotic thrillers, ones decidedly missing the patina of early 90s prestige awarded to Basic Instinct, thanks to its big-name cast, director ( Paul Verhoeven), and screenwriter ( Joe Eszterhas, who received a then-unprecedented $3 million for his screenplay). The home-video industry, then in its heyday, wanted in. era’s most rewound, replayed, and parodied frames of film, via Stone’s instantly infamous interrogation scene. A cop who can’t resist the danger”), starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone in her siren-making role, was the ninth biggest box- office hit of the year, earning almost $118 million domestically-and likely producing the V.H.S. ![]() The reviews weren’t all that hot (“Brutal and brutalizing,” wrote Dave Kehr in the Chicago Tribune), but the sex, violence, and controversy over its perceived homophobia and misogyny were-and that was enough to put asses in seats.īasic Instinct (tagline: “A brutal murder. For a certain subset of the population, the 1992 phenomenon Basic Instinct-released exactly 25 years ago-was the movie of the century.
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