 "Basic Instinct" (1992) contained mild lesbian content, but established lesbianism as a theme in the erotic thriller genre.Later, in the 1990s, erotic thrillers such as "Wild Side" (1995) and "Bound" (1996) explored a lesbian relationships and contained explicit lesbian sex scenes.By 1994 the "Chicago Tribune" reported that erotic thrillers—a term which, Leonard Maltin said, "didn't even exist 15 years ago"—and action films were the two most successful direct-to-video genres.