Night Eyes

In the early 1990s, there was a craze in Hollywood (mostly in the direct-to-video industry) for the "erotic thriller". After several years the craze came to an end and has not made a comeback, probably for one simple reason - these movies were awful, and "Night Eyes" is no exception. For a real cheapie, I'll admit that the production values aren't too bad, and the acting by most of the players is passable. But the movie is for the most part a chore to sit through. I rented the unrated version, but there is surprisingly not a lot of nudity (and no full-frontal nudity) or on screen sex. In fact, there is only one scene that I found was erotic (and only mildly so), and it happens after more than an hour of the running time has passed. Maybe others might find this movie hot - the movie was popular enough to spawn three sequels - but as for me, I was bored by the experience.

Washed-out drunken rock star Brian Walker is having sex in the bathroom at his party and his wife Nikki (Tanya Roberts) catches him. He immediately announces their divorce in front of the guests. He hires security guards Ernie and Will Griffith (Andrew Stevens) to spy on her. They install cameras around her home as well as a secret one in her bedroom. Will watches her have sex with Michael Vincent. He hides it from Brian. He becomes obsessed and starts an affair himself with her. Brian runs into them at a gallery and gets combative. Brian breaks in one night and Will chases him off. After almost running over her, Nikki gets a restraining order against Brain despite his claim of an alibi. Brian comes in with a gun and Will shoots him but there's more to the story.

The plot is actually functional considering its B-movie nature. The acting is pretty stiff and the production is second rate. Stevens and Roberts are basically good enough and pretty enough to do the job. There is some T&A but it's not actually the main driver in this movie. The twist isn't unexpected. This is either a well written soft porn movie or a weakly made real movie.

The 90's went through a phase of these cookie cutter erotic thrillers and Night Eyes was one of the main culprits. It developed into a franchise, 4 movies in total and if the rest are like this it doesn't bode well.

You've seen an erotic thriller before I sure, a generic thriller movie with sex scenes popping up to prevent the viewer from getting bored.

This one tells the story of a man who hires a pair of security guards to keep an eye on his soon to be ex wife in a hope they'll record something that will help in in court when it comes to the settlement. One of the security guards starts to fall for her and the rest writes itself.

Of course a thriller isn't a thriller without a twist or two and the ones here you'll work out for yourself pretty early in the film.

Starring regular in these types of movie Tanya Roberts it's generic, it's trite and it's clearly not aimed at those seeking something they need to think about. Standard thriller stuff then cue the slow jazz for a sex scene and repeat.

The Good:

It ended

The Bad:

Soundtrack gets real old real fast

Nothing we haven't seen before

If an erotic thriller fails to be sexy they've failed one very front

Better then you might expect sex thriller finds Andrew Stevens being security guard for sexy Tanya Roberts who is in the middle of a multi-million dollar divorce. However, the better he gets to know her, the more he wants her and soon the two of them are engaged in a passionate affair.

Not much plot wise to recommend about this movie, but Tanya Roberts good performance keeps you watching and the sex scenes are nice and steamy with the score providing just the right touch. Unrated; Extreme Sexual Content, Nudity, Mild Violence.

Strolled down the B-grade section of my local video store and noticed this movie. Having read the main IMDb review earlier, I thought this movie might turn out to be quite entertaining. Sadly, it was not ! Very predictable. In its genre of B-grade, there are ample examples of better efforts.