Night Eyes (1990)

With such sparkling dialogue:“She must have a flashing billboard across her chest that says Bimbo in Training.”“Bimbette. She’s not smart enough to be a full-fledged bimbo.” How can I resist?

Night Eyes is often forgotten amongst the barrage of erotic thrillers produced in the late 80s and early 90s despite three sequels. On a modest budget of 750k, it did very well in the cable and home video market, grossing a reported $30 million and is arguably the reason we got such a glut of sexy programming on HBO and especially Showtime. 

It’s a lurid, occasionally bland, steamy affair that takes amusing jabs at the affluent, vapid, plastic culture of Beverly Hills while providing a generous helping of naked flesh. 

Aside from a moralistic ending which feels like a cop out and would be much improved had it taken cues from Body Heat or 1994’s The Last Seduction, it’s compulsively watchable.