Scary Chicks And Ice Picks In ‘Basic Instinct’

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When you type ‘Basic Instinct’ into Google Images, the exact same picture fills the results.

A beautiful blonde woman reclining into a chair, a knowing smile stretched across her lips. A pristine white polo neck; white brick walls; a soft hue of blue light. Why this repeated image, you ask?

Well, well, well. 

In Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct, Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) is a police detective in San Francisco who is called upon when a retired rockstar…

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