Basic Instinct
Much bizarre activity follows after a couple learn they're being stalked by a nefarious demon.
29 January 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 December 1963, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
19 October 1959, New York City, New York, USA
10 March 1958, Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
10 December 1951, USA
28 September 1966, Los Angeles County, California, USA
7 August 1955, Cartersville, Georgia, USA
29 March 1956, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 April 1952, Portland, Oregon, USA
22 April 1956
22 September 1946, Panorama City, California, USA
25 April 1940, New York City, New York, USA
8 March 1961, San Francisco, California, USA
6 July 1944, Caldwell, Kansas, USA
6 September 1953, New York City, New York, USA
25 September 1944, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
March 25, 2013
Flashy, raunchy and schlocky, Basic Instinct is classic nineties noir for which Verhoeven's overblown direction and Stone's exposure secured a place in movie history.
March 25, 2013
[The film has] a smug faith in the ability of its own speed, smartness and luxe to wow the yokels.
March 25, 2013
Call me a prude, but it's not sexy watching an erotic thriller in which every time a couple does it, one of them gets it with an ice pick. I don't care how many firmly toned tummies and tushes are bared.
March 25, 2013
The result may be flimsy, but it goes out and grabs you from the start.
February 03, 2017
Here is a film so utterly devoid of art and intellect that nothing remains other than a husk of ridiculous ploys.
March 25, 2013
Verhoeven does not explore the dark side, but merely exploits it, and that makes all the difference in the world.
March 25, 2013
Slick, clever and entertainingly overheated while you're watching it, Basic Instinct starts to evaporate the second you leave the theater.
March 25, 2013
Joe Eszterhas shamelessly reworks ideas and themes he had earlier exploited in films such as Jagged Edge and Music Box, but the sheer overheated nature of Verhoeven's direction makes this extremely watchable.
March 25, 2013
[Verhoeven] has always had a skill for storytelling, however questionable and tasteless the materials; but here he is hopelessly defeated by Ezsterhas' talky, slow-moving, and derivative script.
March 25, 2013
Basic Instinct is a reminder of the difference between exhilaration and exhaustion, between tension and hysteria, between eroticism and exhibitionism. The line may be fine, but it is real enough to separate the great thrillers from the also-rans.
March 25, 2013
Trailer trash Hitchcock spliced with overboiled film noir.
March 25, 2013
The harsh, politically incorrect truth about Basic Instinct is that it's a tantalizing, suspensefully correct thriller.
