Fatal Attraction (1987)

We’re feeling nostalgic for sexy sex scenes and the villainisation of single women. Enter, Fatal attraction. Prepare for spoilers as we discuss the controversy around the axing of the original ending and look back on an era where it was possible for a film to be dubbed “the zeitgeist movie of the decade.”

References 

The original ending

You Must Remember This podcast’s ‘Erotic 90s’ series 

‘Fatal Attraction’ Oral History: Rejected Stars and a Foul Rabbit’, by Bruce Fretts for The NY Times 

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Edited and produced by Lily Austin and James Brailsford
Original music by James Brailsford

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