Night Nurse is a movie of contrasts: It’s shocking and sensual, undeniably perverse and yet somehow weirdly wholesome. If nothing else, it’s entirely its own thing, taking a genre that disappeared almost entirely in the 2010s — the erotic thriller — and reimagining it on its own dreamy, unconventional terms. Writer-director Georgia Bernstein describes it as an “anti-erotic thriller,” a conscious effort to both push the boundaries of eroticism on-screen and subvert our expectations of what this type of film looks like.
“It’s the buildup,” Bernstein tells Inverse, sitting in the greenroom at the Robin Williams Center in New York City. She’s waiting to do a Q&A about Night Nurse with stars Cemre Paksoy and Bruce McKenzie and is describing her idea for her next movie. It’s another erotic thriller — this one’s set in Turkey, where Paksoy grew up — and Bernstein hopes that they can pull it off without a single on-screen kiss.
