Erotic thrillers, as pointed out by the HDTGM guys, really are extinct now. It's not a giant loss in the scope of things, but it is an interesting phenomenon and some of these are fun enough to be worth seeing and talking about.
The Bedroom Window would have been at the early forefront of the erotic thriller, the real bulk of these coming along in the 90's with Basic Instinct and such. The Bedroom Window is also a thriller and a good guys going after the bad guys sort of a thing, everything culminating in the trademark movie scene where unassisted, the heroes have to track down a dangerous killer.
We begin with Steve Guttenberg having an affair with the wife of a powerful man. She witnesses a brutal attack from his house window, and cannot have anyone know she was there, so they decide to pretend it was he who witnessed it. But his story falls apart in court and now the killer is free. Meanwhile, sexy things are happening and the erotic thriller part of the storyline is charged up the yazoo in this 80's flick.
I can tell I'm a mature cool guy because when the sexy bar dancing scene happens, I laugh and say to myself "this is so stupid". Realistically, some of these aspects simply have not aged well, but they're so indicative of a time and world which was quite different. It's fun to see in a nostalgic sort of way, and it's really fun because these were the types of movies I was watching when I was young, getting weird ass ideas about sex, romance, women, flirting and relationships.
The Bedroom Window won't make you scream to watch it again, but it reminds me of a off-kilter sorta gauzy flick like Body Double, just quite not as good. Entertaining enough, especially if you ever saw this sorta thing when you were in your early pubescence.
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