Wild Things (1998)
Wild Things stars Neve Campbell and Denise Richards — who were 23 and 26 at the time, respectively — as two high schoolers who take part in a very twisty, very diabolical con.
There’s so, so, so much wrong with Wild Things — the dicey portrayal of high school girls, the narrative device of young women lying about assault, the murders — but it’s willingness to ignore guardrails of good taste makes it a masterpiece of Gen X noir, pulling from the best elements of widely panned films like Showgirls.
Campbell and Richards (above) are magnificent, as are Bill Murray as a delightfully sleazy lawyer, Matt Dillon as a morally corrupt guidance counselor, and Kevin Spacey as a mysterious cop.
Bacon is also an executive producer of the film, and shows something in a shower scene that you didn’t generally see in 1990s movies. In retrospect it seems like a great example of equal-opportunity gratuitous skin, and good for him. It makes it a slightly less sleazy movie.
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