Track Listing

1. Main Title
2. Crossed Legs
3. Night Life
4. Kitchen Help
5. Pillow Talk
6. Morning After
7. Games Are Over
8. Catherine's Sorrow
9. Roxy Loses
10. Unending Story

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52386 in Music
• Released on: 1992-05-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
One of Jerry Goldsmith's great strengths as a composer is his ability to reflect the psychological profile of a film. This gift came in handy when he agreed to score Paul Verhoeven's erotic thriller Basic Instinct (1992). Featuring the streamlined, John Barry-esque aesthetic that Goldsmith perfected in the 1990s (substituted for the composer's dense, harmonically complex style of the 1960s and 1970s), Basic Instinct is a languorous, sultry effort of passion without emotion. The icily seductive mood is established immediately with the "Main Title," a flawless integration of orchestral and electronic writing (no fewer than ten synthesisers were incorporated into the texture). Goldsmith's polished surfaces are contrasted by driving, rhythmic passages of movement and suspense. The entire enterprise works on a sub-textual level, expressing the director's themes before the audience is even aware of them. For his dramatic insight and compositional ingenuity, Goldsmith was rewarded with yet another Oscar nomination. --Kevin Mulhall

Customer Reviews

Sexy, Thrilling, Captivating...
Almost everyone has heard of Basic Instinct. However, its tag of 'erotic thriller' has put many people off watching it. To these people, I would say, get over it, and have a good look at this film, because it is superb. Yes, the sex scenes are very graphic, but the story is so captivating that you'll be able to get past them and anjoy this for what it is... a good suspense thriller.

Sharon Stone stars as Catherine Tramell, a novelist, whose boyfriend is stabbed to death with an ice-pick. This killing was exactly the same as one described in Catherine's latest book. You are then left wondering. Did Catherine recreate the events of her book and kill her lover, or did someone else, someone who wanted to ruin Catherine, carry out the deed in question?

Michael Douglas is the cop invstigating the murder, however, it is only too soon before he is seduced by Catherine. It's suspense all the way until the end, where, even then, you aren't sure, who really is the murderer.

If thrillers are your thing, then go and watch this DVD. A word of warning though. This is not one for kids and teenagers...

SENSATIONAL
This is a brilliant and breathtaking film. The film is infamous for it's graphic erotic scenes, but if you can manage to get through the film without being (ahem) distracted by Sharon Stone, then you will find that the characters are highly developed and fascinating, the plot is complex and intelligent and the delivery is fast, entertaining and absorbing from start to finish.
It's a pity that this film is famous for the wrong reasons. Dare to admit that Basic Instinct is one of you're favourite films and your liable to be sniggered at. This film should not be dismissed as pure eroticism. Admittedly some scenes are graphic but the eroticism is not gratuitous. Overall, i found it to be an intelligent thriller with two superb leads and a great supporting cast. The film is sensational.

worth a look ; not worth two
This film achieved notoriety on its release, largely because of its sex scenes and in particular a scene in which Sharon Stone uncrosses and recrosses her legs provocatively under interrogation by some cops. There are , in fact, sexier scenes in the film, though some of them present physical gymnmastics which are more likely to produce hernias or bad backs than orgasms (in the characters, I mean). In fact it is a film with a not-bad plot and quite a bit of atmosphere, it is fairly well acted by Stone, Michael Douglas, Jean Tripplehorn et al. (though we become aware that Douglas has a rather unexciting bottom and slightly bandy legs), and it has to be said that Stone often looks very good indeed. So it's a pot-boiler, but an unusual one, and worth seeing if you don't have anything better to do. On no account, however, spend time on the sequel, 'Basic Instinct 2' ; it is dire.