In a 2013 interview, Paul Verhoeven explained his motives for doing the movie. He did not like Joe Eszterhas's initial script, and passed on the project in favor of doing "Crusade", based on a screenplay by Walon Green and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. However, that project fell through when Carolco Pictures could not afford to finance both "Crusade" and Cutthroat Island (1995). Since $10 million had already been spent on "Crusade", and Eszterhas already received $4 million for his Showgirls screenplay, Verhoeven felt morally obligated to do Showgirls as a personal favor to Mario Kassar to save Carolco from bankruptcy. Eszterhas' screenplay was extensively re-written with All About Eve (1950) as the main source of inspiration. Verhoeven intended it to be an over-the-top morality tale, populated with only amoral characters (except for the character of Molly (Gina Ravera), with Las Vegas as a metaphor for hypocrisy and extortion. However, the satirical intentions were not picked up by the critics, who regarded the movie as a simplistic portrayal of American culture, and the box office failure of both this movie and 'Cutthroat Island' made the bankruptcy of Carolco inevitable.
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Trainspotting 1996
Renton deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Trainspotting features disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic and black comedy style.
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Cape Fear 1991
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed cigar-smoking bible-quoting psychotic rapist. What do they have in common Fourteen years ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cadys rape trial and he made a ...
Cape Fear features psychological, suspenseful, neo noir, tense and suspense style.
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Taxi Driver 1976
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Taxi Driver features psychological, neo noir, bleak, disturbing and cult classic style.
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Soylent Green 1973
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.
Soylent Green features futuristic, mindfuck, twist ending, atmospheric and bleak style.
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Fight Club 1999
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on with underground quotfight clubsquot forming in every town until an eccentric gets in the ...
Fight Club features surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral and philosophical style.
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Scum 1979
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the tough new inmate and the ...
Scum features disturbing, rough, tense, serious and controversial style.
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2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000 the worlds most advanced super computer.
2001: A Space Odyssey features futuristic, philosophical, psychedelic, mind bending and cerebral style.
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Natural Born Killers 1994
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Natural Born Killers features controversial, brutal, sadistic, disturbing and surreal style.
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Joker 2019
During the 1980s a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Joker features thought provoking, suspense, atmospheric, bleak and psychological thriller style.
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Hate 1995
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia Vinz Hubert and Said -- a Jew African and an Arab -- give human faces to Frances immigrant populations their bristling resentment at their social ...
Hate features bleak, black and white, art house, disturbing and hood style.
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Man Bites Dog 1992
The activities of rampaging indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and ...
Man Bites Dog features dark comedy, mockumentary, black comedy, disturbing and black and white style.
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Se7en 1995
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the quotseven deadly sinsquot in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Se7en features detective, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing and neo noir style.
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Jim Henson's brief to designer Brian Froud for the Skeksis was that they should resemble crocodiles living in a castle.
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The Fly 1986
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
The Fly features scary, suspense, psychological, atmospheric and disturbing style.
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The Void 2016
In the middle of a routine patrol officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew only to discover that patients and ...
The Void features dark, lovecraft, creepy, stylized and surreal style.
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Life 2017
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Life features suspense, scary, apocalyptic, tense and suspenseful style.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are ...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers features disturbing, scary, suspenseful, creepy and psychological style.
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Phantoms 1998
In the peaceful town of Snowfield Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now its up to a group of people to stop it or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Phantoms features scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense and twist ending style.
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Sphere 1998
The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best ...
Sphere features scary, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful and breathtaking style.
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Annihilation 2018
A biologist signs up for a dangerous secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature dont apply.
Annihilation features suspense, psychedelic, psychological, disturbing and lovecraft style.
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