Apatros Review Ep-0086: Subliminal Seduction [1996] ["Flash Frame"]

AR-0086: In the 1990s, actor-turned-producer Andrew Stevens formed a company called Royal Oaks, which mounted and issued a moderate number of B-grade actioners and softcore erotica onto the DTV [direct-to-video] market during the second half of the 90s.

"Subliminal Seduction" [also known as "Flash Frame", that title being on my archive print] is one of the softcore erotica thrillers Royal Oaks first issued, a story about a hotshot videogame developer hired by a rather shady firm that has been experimenting with subliminal messaging in their adult games, even subjecting most of their own employees to this program and planning to unleash it onto the American public. Our hero doesn't seem to realise that he is being used as the latest test subject, while the female narcissist executive in charge of the project is hell-bent on keeping the experiment as secret as possible.

While the effectiveness of subliminal messaging was actually debunked decades ago, this concept still has the potential to cause great harm to society, however this particular movie fails to make much mileage out of the idea, merely using it as a hook to set up the sex scenes. A fairly mediocre example of the 1990s erotica thriller market.

My Grade: D+ [Disappointing]

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