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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

Masquerade (1988)

Not of This Earth (1988)

Patti Rocks (1988)

A Short Film About Love (1988, Pol.) (aka Krótki Film o Milosci)

Two Moon Junction (1988)

This well-photographed, soft-core erotica drama (with a double entendre title) was produced by director/writer Zalman King (of Red Shoe Diaries fame); its cliche-filled tale was about the sexual awakening of Southern belle heiress April Delongpre (Sherilyn Fenn), soon to be married, in numerous well-orchestrated, hot tryst scenes with a lusty, long-haired carnival worker Perry (Richard Tyson); it even featured a quick nude glimpse of Kristy McNichol (as painted, truck-driving floozie Patti Jean); it was followed by a sequel in 1994

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Sexy, animated, femme fatale Toon Jessica Rabbit (voice of Kathleen Turner), the absurdly curvaceous bombshell wife of Roger Rabbit, made a dramatic entrance at the Ink and Paint Club; her sexy leg and some of her ample breasts appeared first from behind the curtain, and then she emerged wearing a slinky, high-cut shimmering pink dress; she looked very little like a rabbit and more like a statuesque, cartoon-animated movie star -- a combination stacked Playboy bunny, Lauren Bacall and 40's peek-a-boo blonde actress Veronica Lake; the buxom, red-haired chanteuse swept out onto the stage and sayshayed into the audience singing Why Don't You Do Right? (voice of Amy Irving) - the patrons hooted and whistled at her; she later cooed the immortal line: "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way."

Animators at Disney were accused of inserting dirty visual humor into this film - in particular, a panty-less Jessica Rabbit when she was flung to the side of the road from Bennie the Cab -- only visible in the laser-disc version of the film and cleaned up for subsequent video releases; also controversial was the never-edited shot of Baby Herman drooling while inappropriately grabbing at a secretary.

See also The Little Mermaid (1989) entry below

The "Scream Queens" of the Late 80s and Early 90s, part 1

Sorority Babes in The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988)

Brinke Stevens, Michelle Bauer (an ex-Penthouse Pet sometimes billed as Michelle McClellan or Pia Snow), and Linnea Quigley, known colloquially as "Scream Queens", starred in many low-budget, straight-to-video B-films in the late 80s.

David DeCoteau's nudity-filled comedy-horror sex film was a parody about college sorority coeds who discovered a bowling trophy with a vengeful genie inside; it included a scene of Michelle (as Lisa) and Brinke (as Taffy) being paddled as an initiation, and another scene of Brinke being peeped upon while showering and washing whipped cream off her body

The "Scream Queens" of the Late 80s and Early 90s, part 2

Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)

Always (1989)

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989, UK)

Peter Greenaway's cruel, over-the-top, metaphoric, and allegorical truth-telling film established linkages between gastronomy and bodily functions, and sex and death; it was set mostly within a huge trendy haute cuisine London restaurant (Le Hollandais) with evening banquets every night over a nine-evening period and featured four main characters: (1) gluttonous, uncouth, and maniacal boss Thief Albert Spica (Michael Gambon), (2) his desperate and much-humiliated Wife Georgina (Helen Mirren), (3) the kitchen's French chef Cook Richard Borst (Richard Bohringer), and the Wife's bookwormish patron diner/Lover Michael (Alan Howard); histrionic conversations were about food, excrement and sex; after discovering his adulterous wife's unfaithfulness and hungry trysts with the Lover (during visits to the ladies' room stall, kitchen and bakery pantry and refrigerated meat freezer in the back of a truck, filmed with unflattering lighting), the brutal Albert decided upon savage, cannibalistic revenge upon the man (ironically stating and foreshadowing: "I'll cook him! And I’ll eat him!"); Michael was killed by force-feeding him with pages from a book - to retaliate, Georgina had the Cook bake up her lover's corpse for her husband and then headed a procession bringing in the veiled body for a surprise dinner; she forced her husband at gunpoint to eat the warmed-up cadaver - "Try the cock -- it's a delicacy. And you know where it's been"; stunned, Albert took a bite and vomited, as The Wife encouraged him to eat more ("Bon appetit, Albert. That's French") - and then shot him to death - condemning him as a "Cannibal"; the sensational film's putrescence, debasement and excesses (sadism, cannibalism, torture, fornication, puke, and rotting fish and meat) and scatological themes (force-feeding of excrement (termed coprophagy), urination on victims) forced the Motion Picture Association of America to give the film an "X" rating, so the film (after being denied an appeal) was released unrated by the producers, and then given an NC-17 rating by the time of its video release; an alternative R-rated version cut out about 30 minutes of footage

The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)

The Little Mermaid (1989)

Sea of Love (1989)

Director Harold Becker's Hitchcock-like who-dun-it included a tense, torrid tryst scene between 20 year veteran cop Frank Keller (Al Pacino), acting as a decoy, and a mysterious lonely-hearts killer suspect: a carnal seductress, femme fatale and wicked single mother Helen (Ellen Barkin), who dangerously aroused both his suspicions and lust

Two years earlier, Barkin had starred in the plot-twisting and odd film Siesta (1987), opening with the intriguing scene of the red-dressed star waking up in Spain with amnesia and covered in someone's blood, and then washing off next to a stream

sex, lies and videotape (1989)