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The '90s was kinda cool for surprising fair in direct-to-video. There was a lot of lower budget films being made, action films and thrillers, that have fallen by the wayside as of late. It was all still shot on film and a lot of it still fairly feature quality stuff if only maybe a little short on style or polish. It was a segment that doesn't really exist much anymore.Originally Posted by Macready
This was one of the movies that came out to cash in on the success of Basic Instinct. I remember very little but I remember liking it. Agreed about Amick. Spader kind of made a name for himself with this sort of thing. He went on to do Crash after this. Sex Lies and Videotape before this. Spader was all about letting his dick have fun back then
She was in another picture, if I recall, with a bit of skin (there were still pictures with a bit of skin back then) where she's married to John Lithgow and then maybe Eric Roberts plays an old boyfriend and a bit of the old criss-cross and double-cross happens (Love, Cheat & Steal). And then she was in this other one with Andrew McCarthy set in this apartment complex that I swear I used to live down the street from, where she plays this mysterious beauty involved in a murder mystery (The Courtyard).
Mia Sara was in a bunch of similar types of low budget pictures but I don't remember them being as good or interesting as these. Even though it wasn't quite like the videostore boom in the '80s where you could go browse and pick movies to try out based on the cover, there was still a bit of that. Movies you'd never heard of, often with recognizable names, and sometimes they weren't half bad.
Another neo noir from about the same time period with Corey Feldman was Lipstick Camera. And then a film on an entirely different level than all of these, just outstanding but still somewhat obscure, would be Soderberg's The Underneath.
It's kinda hard after that lawyer series and now The Black List, seeing an older, bloated Spader, picturing him as a more or less male sex symbol, albeit creepy one, generally, going back to Tuff Turf and The New Kids, if not earlier.
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