Enjoyable '80s Thriller
I've owned "The Seduction" on VHS for many years and I hope that Anchor Bay does release it on DVD. While Morgan Fairchild's acting may not be leading lady worthy, she was just starting out at the time and was a huge television starlet. I'm not saying she's terrible, but they didn't give her much to do in the screenplay, as she plays 'Jamie Douglas,' a pretty L.A. newscaster who becomes a fan's (Andrew Stevens) obsession. Fairchild's older, not to mention hideous, boyfriend (Michael Sarrazin) is enraged when Stevens barges into her home and takes pictures of her. When he goes to the police and they tell him that nothing can be done until he's threatened her, Sarrazin buys a shotgun. Plucky Morgan wants nothing to do with it, she'd rather lounge in bath tubs, take moonlit swims, or go shopping with her girlfriend, played by Colleen Camp in a funny performance. Stevens finally gets violent and stabs Sarrazin to death, and this is when Morgan turns the tables on him. Fairchild is beautiful to look at without a doubt, and it's great when she decides to fight back, turning Stevens into a pleading coward. Stevens is good as the off-kilter Romeo, but he's too good-looking to be a character that is supposed to be threatening. If anything, Fairchild should've just dumped Sarrazin and she and Stevens would have made a picture perfect couple! But then there'd be no movie. Anyways, Mac Ahlberg provides great photography as he usually does, and the score by Lalo Schifrin is very effective. This is definitely not as bad as a lot of 'critics' say it is, if you're a Morgan Fairchild fan and/or you like glossy thrillers from the 80s, this is your movie!