| | Basic Instinct DVD (3 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Suspense DVDs, Dramas Movies, Thriller Videos, Mystery, Recommended, Murder, Gay/Lesbian, Cops, Racy, Deception, Psychodrama | | Starring | Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Wayne Knight, Mitch Pileggi, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Leilani Sarelle | | Director | Paul Verhoeven | | Composer | Jerry Goldsmith | | Director of Photography | Jan de Bont | | Screenwriter | Joe Eszterhas |
Michael Douglas stars as Nick Curran, a tough but vulnerable detective. Sharon Stone co-stars as Catherine Tramell, a cold, calculating, and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Catherine becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered - a crime she described in her latest novel. Obsessed with cracking the case, Nick descends into San Francisco's forbidden underground where suspicions mount, bodies fall, and he finds within himself an instinct more basic than survival. Extras include new conversation and DVD introduction with Stone, screen tests, Blonde Poison documentary, commentary, montage, storyboard comparisons, trailers, and more. While investigating a mysterious death, San Francisco cop Nick Curran finds himself in a deadly triangle with three beautiful but dangerous women. One of these women, Catherine Trammel, a murder mystery writer who seduces prototypes for her characters, is high on the list of suspects--and her next story is about a cop who falls for the wrong woman. This steamy thriller to end all steamy thrillers stars Michael Douglas as Nick, a boozy San Francisco police detective who finds himself drawn to the prime suspect in a murder case--manipulative, sexually uninhibited novelist Catherine Trammell (Sharon Stone). Catherine's latest book features a murder uncannily similar to the one Nick is investigating, and as the pair engage in a mating dance of dangerous one-upmanship, more murders occur, all described in her current work, about a boozy cop in love with a killer. Nick's psychiatrist (Jeanne Tripplehorn), and cop partner (George Dzundza) are both worried about him, and Catherine's jealous lesbian lover (Leilani Sarelle) may be trying to kill him, but Nick is just too turned on to care.
Director Paul Verhoeven shows an admirable lack of restraint in this ludicrously enjoyable thriller, a sort of postmodern noir with Joe Eszterhas's script coming off like Mamet by way of Penthouse. Stone and Douglas exhibit fine chemistry (and most of their bodies), and there's some lovely Bay Area scenery courtesy of cinematographer Jan de Bont (who went on to direct films such as SPEED and TWISTER). Wayne Knight (Newman from SEINFELD) and Mitch Pileggi (Skinner from THE X-FILES) are precinct heads who question Catherine in the infamous leg-crossing scene. Basic Instinct Quotes/Excerpts: "Were you ever engaged in any sadomasochistic activity?"--John Correli (Wayne Knight) to Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) during interrogation
"Exactly what did you have in mind, Mr. Correli?"--Catherine
"There's no smoking in this building, Ms. Tramell."--Correli
"What're you going do? Charge me with smoking?"--Catherine Basic Instinct Reviews: "...Visually, it's edgy and impressive..."
-- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly "...One charged-up erotic thriller - gory, lurid, brutally funny..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "...[A] red-hot, dangerously modern romance [that] will never be accused of not knowing how to get an audience's attention....[Stone is] chilling..."
-- Janet Maslin, New York Times Basic Instinct | List Price | $9.98 (You save $2.99) | | Studio | Lions Gate Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1992 | | All Time Sales Rank |  8510  | | CD Universe Part number | 7022498 | | Catalog number | 19688 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Mar 14, 2006 | | Rating | Unrated | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Subtitled; Unrated | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Subtitled; Unrated |
Basic Instinct Movie Review Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)   Suspenseful
I found this movie suspenseful. Sharon Stone & Michael Douglas were excellent.
Submitted by reneenowicki (Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada) 
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 One of the hottest movies ever
This movie sizzles from start to finish. Sharon Stone owns every second of the movie she's in. What holds this movie back from being better is the ludacris plot that seems more fit for a soup-opera.
Submitted by Blake (Brandon,MS)
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One Of The Best Movies Of The 90's
BASIC INSTINCT is, a voyeuristic, psychological thriller. It's protagonists ( Michael Douglas, and Sharon Stone ) are not very likeable, though they are interesting. The exploration of sexual obsession, blatant ( often kinky ) eroticism, and sociopathic murder is interesting, though not handled as well as in Hitchcock's VERTIGO, or as perversely as Brian De Palma's SISTERS. Still, there are plenty of jolts, twists, and unnexpected turns. All in all it's a captivating, and briskly-paced drama that I've seen at least a couple of dozen times.
There are some extended sexual scenes, and ice pick stabbings- so if that's your thing, this is the product you'll want.
Submitted by maddyfan2004 (Ohio)
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This is the best version of basic instinct by far that you'll find out there . Granted its not perfect but, it is an older movie. Good skin tones , good depth of field with deatil intacted but , some inside some scence like they could of being better looking .
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Outstanding!
Can't wait to get 2!
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Basic Instinct DVD Slipcovered Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 16:9
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Closed Captioned - English
Additional Release Material:
Video Introduction - Sharon Stone - Star
Audio Commentary - Paul Verohoven - Director, Jan De Bont - Director of Photography
Behind the Scenes - Screen Tests
Documentary - BLOND POISON
Production Interviews - Sharon Stone - Star
Original Theatrical Trailer
Trailers
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