Jul 29, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 12 segments
**John Dahl's *The Last Seduction*** Continuing with an idea that we started a few episodes back focusing on Lena Olin in *Romeo is Bleeding*, this week Mr. Chavez & I take a look at an overlooked…
Rick RamosHostChavezHostWhat's with this movie?
Back in the '90s, if I remember correctly, there was like, um, there was this period where, um, your basic cable, not your basic cable shows, but your, your pay cable shows, HBO, the Movie Channel, um, Showtime, but most importantly, Cinemax, were presenting these really shitty, um, somewhat neo-noir-ish or noir-ish sex dramas, thrillers.
Later on you would have, uh, for like the Movie Channel, Joe Bob Briggs would present, um, the Andy Sidaris films with, uh, Playboy playmates like Donna Spear, Roberta Vasquez, and, um, yeah, uh, Malibu Express, Hard Ticket to Hawaii.
But every once in a while you would see something that would, that would basically slip through the cracks and make you realize that there was quality work being done.
So we were either gonna have a really good episode or we're gonna have just this fucking, um, boxing match back and forth of me defending something that I feel is really exceptional.
Um, and maybe it's because the bar is set so low for this genre at this time, at this, at this, um, at this, uh, artistic and cultural time, 1994.
Neo-noir is already just, you know, usually, usually really weird, um, basic and obvious shit.
But, uh, John Dahl's The Last Seduction with Linda Fiorentino is, I think, one of the best neo-noirs that stands up with, uh, After Dark, My Sweet, Body Heat.
Um, but the driving force and what makes you wanna watch this movie and it, and it, it makes you as a viewer invest in it is Linda Fiorentino, and I cannot figure out why she didn't have a much bigger career.
There are reports that, um, um, she was too forceful and too, um... whereas a man would just be, they would write that off as, as, um, as a male actor, being a male actor.
But I think there's something about this performance and something that seeps out in every performance that she gives.
There's a sexiness to her, but there is a, there, there's a danger, not just a physical danger, but an emotional and psychological danger.
And I think that's what makes the film work because, and we're gonna announce this right from the get-go.
We usually don't say spoiler alert because the movies that we've done are, are 10, 15, 20, 30 years old.
So there is a spoiler alert because there's no way of discussing this film in total.
What's with this movie?
Back in the '90s, if I remember correctly, there was like, um, there was this period where, um, your basic cable, not your basic cable shows, but your, your pay cable shows, HBO, the Movie Channel, um, Showtime, but most importantly, Cinemax, were presenting these really shitty, um, somewhat neo-noir-ish or noir-ish sex dramas, thrillers.
Later on you would have, uh, for like the Movie Channel, Joe Bob Briggs would present, um, the Andy Sidaris films with, uh, Playboy playmates like Donna Spear, Roberta Vasquez, and, um, yeah, uh, Malibu Express, Hard Ticket to Hawaii.
But every once in a while you would see something that would, that would basically slip through the cracks and make you realize that there was quality work being done.
So we were either gonna have a really good episode or we're gonna have just this fucking, um, boxing match back and forth of me defending something that I feel is really exceptional.
Um, and maybe it's because the bar is set so low for this genre at this time, at this, at this, um, at this, uh, artistic and cultural time, 1994.
Neo-noir is already just, you know, usually, usually really weird, um, basic and obvious shit.
But, uh, John Dahl's The Last Seduction with Linda Fiorentino is, I think, one of the best neo-noirs that stands up with, uh, After Dark, My Sweet, Body Heat.
Um, but the driving force and what makes you wanna watch this movie and it, and it, it makes you as a viewer invest in it is Linda Fiorentino, and I cannot figure out why she didn't have a much bigger career.
There are reports that, um, um, she was too forceful and too, um... whereas a man would just be, they would write that off as, as, um, as a male actor, being a male actor.
But I think there's something about this performance and something that seeps out in every performance that she gives.
There's a sexiness to her, but there is a, there, there's a danger, not just a physical danger, but an emotional and psychological danger.
And I think that's what makes the film work because, and we're gonna announce this right from the get-go.
We usually don't say spoiler alert because the movies that we've done are, are 10, 15, 20, 30 years old.
So there is a spoiler alert because there's no way of discussing this film in total.
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