Born with the beauty of the gods, Electra's lust for sexual gratification is exceeded only by her lust for vengeance. Enter a world of forbidden family love, betrayal and murder.
Costume
Toga party rejects meet 90s lingerie catalog.
Writing
Euripides spinning in his grave, but with commitment.
Production
Sets built on someone's apparent tax write-off.
Director
Jay Raskin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a bizarre 1990s wave of erotic Greek myth adaptations, capitalizing on Basic Instinct's success with classics professors crying.
Director Jay Raskin never made another feature; this remains his singular, unrepeatable vision of horny antiquity.
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