Basic Instinct 10th Anniversary Special Edition (18)

Trailer trash Hitchcock spliced with overboiled film noir, as Michael Douglas' 'tec starts screwing Sharon Stone's seductive author - prime suspect in a messy ice-pick killing. It's wildly OTT and so convoluted a corkscrew would make for a more fitting murder weapon, but that's exactly why it appeals.

DVD Extras:

Blonde Poison documentary, two featurettes, Sharon Stone and Jeanne Tripplehorn screen tests, storyboard-to-film comparisons, photo gallery, trailer. Only about 40 minutes' worth of material on this two-disc set, but it's good stuff. All the major players pop up in the documentary - as do the gay rights' leaders who picketed the set during shooting - and Verhoeven is typically outspoken throughout. The Cleaning Up Basic Instinct featurette is a hoot, meanwhile, comparing scenes from the theatrical release to their dubbed-for-TV counterparts ("shit from shinola" becomes "spit from shinola"), and Stone's screentest shows she had Catherine Tramell down pat from day one. But where're the commentaries from the Region One disc?

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