In fact, Body Heat itself was not really original, but was a brilliant revival of a long-dormant genre.
There have been many XXX videos named Body Heat since 1981. Even hard-core sex films borrowed from it. Just about every “erotic thriller” of the next 15 years seemed to be a variation of this film. In its own way, Body Heat was one of the most influential films in history, kind of the Pulp Fiction of its time, at least in terms of the trends it started and how often it was imitated. It’s a great entertainment and guilty pleasure film, but also more than that. Body Heat is one of my favorite films, so I’ll prattle on about it for a while.
