Graphic Desires review

Billed as a cross between Fatal Attraction and Black Mirror, prolific British director Andy Edwards‘ erotic thriller is a steamy affair for the digital age.

When Franklin’s girlfriend Candida goes away for a few days he becomes tempted by a new social dating/hookup app.

Here he meets the mysterious Atlanta, an American girl who gives him a night he will never forget. Franklin becomes obsessed with this enigma, but everything is not what it seems.

Writer/Director Edwards really captures the dark underbelly and sleaze of London in Graphic Desires, frequenting online chat girl rooms and adultery aplenty.

Despite this, there is a style to the feature, and it is paced really well, with a fairly linear story within the sub-genre but sprinkled with some surprises.

The age of the erotic thriller, which saw its boom in the ’90s is long in the rearview mirror, but this offers Graphic Desires the opportunity to re-introduce some tropes while having plenty of social commentary. Whether it’s online exploitation in a post-pandemic world or what it means to be in a committed relationship, its all here.

Graphic Desires is darkly entertaining, and doesn’t hold back on any part of its explicit content. I mean you wouldn’t want a watered-down erotic thriller, right?