Dangerous Touch (1994)

Amanda Grace (Kate Vernon) is a radio sex therapist with an active sex life of one night stands. She meets Mick Burroughs (Lou Diamond Phillips) at a book signing and brings him to a party. He's a controlling man of perversity with a criminal past. He videotapes her having kinky sex with a female prostitute and he blackmails her.This is strictly a bad erotic thriller. The problem is that I don't buy Lou Diamond Phillips. I can see him as a weak criminal which leaves me with the question of whether she would fall for him in the first place. I don't see it happening which makes it hard for me to buy this movie from the start. I don't see the chemistry or the attraction. I've never seen LDP as a great actor. He's always been an interesting actor of limited range. There are some sections of good tension like when she tries and fails to buy back the tape. However the movie is never able to maintain it.

This is a classic 2:30am Cinnimax flick that makes you laugh when you're not supposed to laugh. Lou Diamond Phillips comes out of nowhere to seduce an attractive Sex Therapist into situations that she talks about with her patients on a daily basis. Kate Vernon is hot which keeps the movie going, yet the cheese sets in as the plot starts to unravel. As far as the directorial debut of L.D.P, it's hard to judge his work since the majority of the shots are in the bedroom. There are some funny lines in this movie, yet I don't think they are supposed to be funny. I would recommend somebody to watch this movie, only if he/she has a decent sense of humor. Very dirty in a good kind of way and a plot that doesn't make you think to much.

Kate Vernon comes off very well as a radio talk show host who wants to fulfill her own fantasies as well as give advice to her listeners.Problem predictably develops when she involves herself in a situation with one of her callers that leads to a video tape and blackmail for the caller's not predictable reasons.Lou Diamond Phillips does a pretty good job of directing but he miscast himself as the male lead. Otherwise this is far better than most of the genre and Ms. Vernon is awfully sexy.

...and could actually be better than most of the vile garbage that comes out of Hollywood lately. Has an interesting premise, and at first you expect it to be another mindless "erotic thriller" (it did go straight to video), but the second half hour springs the "thriller" part that most of these erotic thrillers lack (or never had). Pretty interesting movie.Direction isn't exactly innovative, but pretty fair. Richie Valens actually came off as threatening, hard to do since he's about a foot shorter than the female lead (nothing personal, but I think he could have done better if he didn't star in it, too). There were parts of this movie that had me bamboozled -- I thought it was going one way and it went the other way out of nowhere.Excellent first try from Mister La Bamba. I wonder if he's done anything since...?