Morgan Fairchild in "The Seduction" (1982)

You can watch the full movie at Tubi, a free streaming site.

A waste of time and I love it. All of it.

I love Colleen Camp as her sassy friend in this. The shopping mall scene is amazing.

Tonight's viewing all sorted. Thanks.

I saw that when it came out.

BTW I follow Morgan Fairchild on Twitter. She hates Trump.

There are some fun and clever moments in this movie. Near the end, when Michael Sarrazin is fucking Morgan in the hot tub, he lets out a moan that suggests he's cumming, but it's swiftly revealed that Andrew Stevens has in fact just plunged a knife into his back.

Bette Davis said she loved The Seduction.

Morgan deserves honorary DL Goddess status for so many reasons but one in particular. When interviewed by Joan Rivers, she said the one person in entertainment she'd like to meet was Stephen Sondheim.

I would’ve let Andrew Stevens seduce me.

Morgan has the look of a classic high-society Dallas boomer, which makes it easy to assume she'd be a Republican nut, but she is certainly not a dummy. I think she is probably much more intelligent than she's given credit for.

Morgan and Andrew looking fabulous

The NYT review claimed that Stevens spends "more time blow-drying his hair than he does terrifying his neighbor or us."

I adore Morgan Fairchild and adore that she was a nerdy, pudgy kid who got straight As:

Morgan is a good egg.

I would’ve fluffed Andrew Stevens.

Doesnt Morgan have a genius IQ? I thought I read that a few years back. I had always written her off as an 80's glamazon but then I followed her Twitter and found she would write some thoughtful, intelligent posts. Not the stuff you'd expect from, say, Victoria Principal or Bo Derek.

Just started watching. The opening credits have the most 1980s typeface ever in the most 1980s shade of pink ever, over lustful shots of Morgan swimming nude in a pool at night. When she emerges from the water in a full face of 1980s makeup I cheered in my living room.

Now she's going to her job in a blazer over a dusty rose blouse with a pussy bow the size of Cleveland. So far FOUR STARS.

The dialogue is first rate.

"Art! Fart!"

This was supposed to be her big break into movies. She had developed quite a buzz on Flamingo Road.

The movie was promoted heavily.

R16 understands

The director, David Schmoeller, did a lot of B-horror such as Puppet Masters after this, but he also directed the wonderfully weird Tourist Trap in 1979, which featured a young Tanya Roberts. Looking at his filmography, The Seduction is easily the most conventional film he made.

Halfway through. After the stalker breaks into Morgan's house and straddles her on the couch while taking photographs of her screaming, she goes to the police and is told, "Well, come back if he actually breaks any laws."

She also has a Sassy Gay Friend at work, which would become popular in the 1990s.

[quote]Just started watching. The opening credits have the most 1980s typeface ever in the most 1980s shade of pink ever, over lustful shots of Morgan swimming nude in a pool at night. When she emerges from the water in a full face of 1980s makeup I cheered in my living room.

Don’t forget the languid theme song by Dionne Warwick, sadly never released anywhere outside the film

Fairchild plays a Los Angeles news reporter - I'll stop you there. I can only believe her as a gossip columnist.

She's fighting back with the only weapon she has - her makeup bag.

According to the DVD commentary with the director he was not a fan of Morgan Fairchild and did not want her as the lead but I guess the financing was tied to her casting. Schmoeller said he wanted Theresa Russell which would have changed the vibe a lot.

R23, LA News also gave us Kelly Lange, Tawny Little and Bree Walker. Any LA resident understood the scenario.

Andrew Stevens was a graduate of the Patrick Swayze Look Constipated Acting Method.

They used to show this on HBO all the time in the 80s. I was always disappointed Andrew Stevens didn’t get naked

She somehow comes through my Twitter timeline occasionally with photos of herself wearing a mask as she walks around her neighborhood. Apparently she's never had COVID, so good for her.

Andrew Steven’s makes a great psycho.

[quote]Andrew Stevens is a psycho.

Fixed it for you, r30...and oh dear.

Hey, poor Andrew had to be a psycho to romance Kate Jackson, Kim Darby, Morgan Fairchild and Angela Lansbury.

This is right up my alley, OP! And the full movie is on Tubi.

I saw this as a double feature at the drive-in, playing with Lauren Bacall’s “The Fan.” Afterwards, I fantasized about the two male leads, Michael Biehn and Andrew Stevens, doing a movie together playing similarly crazy characters (without the murders), becoming obsessed with each other, and joining as a gay couple who work to overcome their nuttiness, go into hiding, and live happily ever after.

I recall when Meryl dissed Morgan. Meryl said she was not star but Morgan Fairchild was.

When Morgan tells Chris Sarrazin she has everything in life she wants and she is completely happy, you know she is headed for trouble.

According to the DVD commentary with the director he was not a fan of Morgan Fairchild

What an insensitive thing to admit to.

The scene under the opening credits of Morgan or her double swimming in a pool reminds me of the opening of Jaws.

Andrew Stevens just needs a really good hand job in this movie.

What this movie really needed too was a scene where Andrew somehow swaps himself out for Michael Sarrazin, in the dark or something, and has sex with Morgan’s character which she enjoys until she realises it’s not Michael Sarrazin. Yes, please.

This is one of the movies where the stalker is gorgeous so we can never believe he would have trouble getting women.

Morgan has always had the deepest voice on her. Like fuckin Bea Arthur.

[quote] Like fuckin Bea Arthur.

Funny you mention that because, little known fact: Bea Arthur was originally cast in the Morgan Fairchild role. She looked forward to the nude swimming scene and the flash of muff, topless, getting into bed scene, but was cast at the last minute in a sitcom and thought that might be the better decision. The joke was on her, though as "Amelia's" was gone after a single season, while "The Seduction" ranks as a highlight of 80's cinema.

Trope #1 the rude phone reply. The victim thinks the stalker is calling them on the phone and when she answers, she is abusive but it turns out the caller is not the stalker this time.

Dottie Hinkle has joined the chat.

I don’t use bad language.

Paper Dolls is her Mona Lisa.

[quote]The joke was on her, though as "Amelia's" was gone after a single season

Oh dear.

I thought she had a sex change?

Off topic, but is Morgan a lesbian? I’d like to imagine she is.

Morgan doesn’t give me lesbian vibes, and she was with the same man from 1987 until his death last year. She would make for one glam lesbian though.

I always thought she was a lesbian too. She was like ONJ. No matter how pretty and girly she acted there was always a big butch side to her.

R51 no

When Morgan goes to see her neighbor Colleen Camp Colleen asks her, What rattled your cage? Is this the first time this expression was used on TV??

oops I meant in a movie though this movie looks like it was made for TV.