Directed by Sam Coyle (The Marriage Pass, Meet the Killer Parents) and written by Mary Risk (Killer Nurses), this is everything that a Tubi Original movie should be.
Ariel (Sofia Masson, who was in another fun Tubi film, Castaways) is a photographer who has only sold one of her photos, the only one her agent feels shows her edge. It has her on a chain and is called “Daddy Issues.” She soon meets Derek (Stephen Huszar), and their first date becomes a relationship. She lives in his summer house, where he sets up a state-of-the-art photo study to explore her creativity when she isn’t horizontally dancing with him in every room and fulfilling his need to be called daddy.
However, she soon learns that Derek really is Daddy—stepdad—to Chloe (Jasmine Vega), who surprisingly shows up for breakfast one morning.
If you’ve seen enough Giallo, you may wonder, “How long until we learn that Derek and Chloe are a couple?” Fatal Exposure ups the odds by having the girls take Molly together and end up in bed with each other, which is filmed by all of the security cameras in the house, as well as Derek joining them, which is at once hot and very gross. Still, like Italian psychosexual movies, boundaries are only there to be stomped on like grapes.
I’ve often bemoaned the lack of erotic thrillers, having grown up on them in the 90s, and here we are with one that would totally fit in and actually be better than most of them. This is the third of Coyle’s movies I’ve noticed and found to be way better than expectations. This has an ending that is made for our era, instead of the Giallo of the 70s or erotic films of the 90s, and leads with no real sense of morality, which is what I demand from movies like this. If only this had Bruno Nicolai, Nora Orlandi or Morricone doing the soundtrack!
You can watch this on Tubi.