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Posted: 9 years ago
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I think it all started with Raaz. That song 'Aapke pyar mein hum sawarne lage' was very popular coz of it's bold content at that time.

Raaz was huge hit. I personally think it was coz it was a fine thriller but since it had erotic content, formula became hit.

But I put Bhoot as a better thriller. Out n out crazy Urmila. Even that 13B.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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I enjoy a lot of erotic thrillers, I think erotica is also thrilling, so most thrillers use tot
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Posted: 9 years ago
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I wonder too... why is it so necessary to mix erotic with thriller?
Posted: 9 years ago
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Small budget
Producers break even by tv , music , streaming etc rights
Not big risk for producers and some of them end up making money.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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I love the term they use...Horrex 😆
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Posted: 9 years ago
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I would have associated erotic thrillers back to those times with Hollywood vampire films.
There is a reason why Twilight book series was a major hit with female readers - underlying sexual tension was far more intriguing than the over-exposing sexual act.
The actual consummation of vampire and human in the Twilight series happened only 3 books later.
Vampires were shown to be lusting after blood, not body.
Their heightened sense of taste and touch was considered sensual, not sexual.
That won a lot of female audiences to fall for the thriller genre.

In Bollywood, I would have thought the 90s Shahrukh and his signature kiss on the side of a woman's neck was depicted as erotic back then.
Even in "Darr" where he was the antagonist, his act of spooking Juhi Chawla in the dark on her birthday by slowing licking the cake off her fingers and kissing her neck was considered "hot" compared to the romantic screen space she shared with Sunny Deol.

In the 2000s, the Bhatts (including Pooja Bhatt) re-invented horror genre with a female vamp as the ghost, who is not afraid to show her bold sexuality.
The man becomes the victim here.
This formula caputulated Bipasha Basu to fame in the thriller "Jism".

Erotica changes the power game in a thriller movie as we have to keep guessing who is the hunter and who is being hunted.

But I don't know what happened to Bollywood recently...
the trailer of "Befikre" seems to be more horror show than erotic to me!!

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