Nothing is more screamingly Nineties than Boogie Nights star Heather Graham bonking to the dramatic wail of a saxophone as curtains waft sensually around her. It’s just one of the many nods to cinema past in Suitable Flesh, a gooey horror throwback that answers a question only the bravest screenwriters would dare ask: what would happen if Basic Instinct lost Sharon Stone and replaced her with a body-swapping, ambisexual hell demon who smokes rollies and rips people’s heads off?
Graham, having the most on-screen fun she’s had in years, is Elizabeth Derby, one of those archetypal X-rated thriller psychologists with a hit book on multiple personality disorders and a doctorate in stifled sexual urges. Her libido is reawakened by the arrival of a mysterious college student, Judah Lewis’s Asa, who claims to be possessed. Soon enough, the demon within him is alternating between having sex with Elizabeth and taking over her body, the suddenly dangerous doctor wrecking erotic havoc at home and in the workplace.
