Watch This: Color Of Night takes the erotic thriller far beyond the point of absurdity
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Following the runaway success of Basic Instinct, cineplexes were suddenly flooded by a massive wave of sleazy, voyeuristic, soft-focus erotic thrillers in the mid-'90s. 1994's exquisitely idiotic Color Of Night boasted a much higher pedigree than most of the field: It was directed by Richard Rush, the man behind the mind-bending 1980 cult classic The Stunt Man and co-written by Billy Ray, who would someday give the world superior docudramas like Shattered Glass and Breach, both of which he directed.
The eminently overqualified Rush and Ray collaborated on a dizzy, daffy potboiler that doesn't transcend the sleazy, sordid nature of the erotic thriller so much as it pushes the convoluted plotting and shamelessness of the ...
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