The kids today get mad about sex scenes being in movies. Well, let me tell you, this 1995 erotic thriller has one of the wildest romance scenes I’ve ever witnessed, one that, frankly, kind of blows my mind and makes me like this film even more. Which means that yes, sex scenes can be good.

We know that.

Dr. Sarah Taylor (Rebecca De Mornay) dealt with the trauma of being assaulted by her father (Len Cariou) every single day by becoming a criminal psychologist. She doesn’t seem to connect well with humanity. She slept with neighbor Cliff (Dennis Miller) once, and that didn’t go well. But now she’s seen Tony Ramirez (Antonio Banderas) at the mall and ends up dating him. I mean, it’s 1995, Antonio Banderas. You get it. She does too. 

The problem is that she starts. getting threats, the deeper their attraction goes, and her cat gets killed. Then she finds out he’s been keeping files on her and is looking into her boyfriend, who disappeared. Well, here’s the twist. Her father killed her mother and brainwashed her, creating several personalities that live inside her, and she’s basically been stalking and threatening herself. It gets wilder. The ending has been called laughable and idiotic. That’s probably what those who have never seen a giallo would say.

Directed by Peter Hall and written by Lewis A. Green and Jordan Rush, this also has Harry Dean Stanton as a criminal. If it seems like they have chemistry, De Mornay and Stanton dated after meeting during filming One from the Heart, only to break up when she had an affair with Tom Cruise while filming Risky Business.

That sex scene — wow. Saxophone sqwonks, as it always does, as De Mornay licks down Banderas’ spine, bites his rear and then slides behind him to simulate pegging him until she leaves him on his knees, going around a metal cage and sticking her tongue through it so he can suck it. I’ve never witnessed a more transgressive sex scene in a mainstream erotic thriller that wasn’t made direct for video. 

You can watch this on Tubi.