 Though most discussions around erotic thrillers tend to reference Hollywood films such as "Fatal Attraction" and "Basic Instinct", the independently financed films were far more numerous.Saddled with smaller budgets and a cadre of lesser-known celebrities, they thrived by finding an audience in the expanding DTV market.These “high and low” markets for the erotic thriller overlapped but did not compete, and each fed off the other financially and artistically.