Despite its two top billed actors being Steven Bauer and Chelsea Field, when Snapdragon was released back in the early 90's it was clearly being promoted as a Pamela Anderson vehicle. Pretty unsurprisingly because this film captures a young Pammy at an early stage in her career and she looks absolutely delicious it has to be said. The film is an erotic psychological thriller, a sub-genre that was particularly popular in the early 90's. It concerns a series of murders that appear to involve a female killer who dispatches with men during sex at the point of orgasm. Meanwhile, a police psychologist becomes involved with a young amnesiac woman who suffers recurring dreams of murder.

As a thriller this one is definitely lacking in the suspense area. The murder scenes are all pretty steamy and well shot but there is no build up to speak of and the subsequent investigation doesn't really generate much in the way of thrills or intrigue. It's unfortunate that the film is lacklustre in these areas but it definitely is serviceable enough and the plot-line never gets boring. But where this one definitely scores is from an erotic point-of-view, where it is a noticeable success. I, personally, am a big fan of femme fatales and pneumatically buxom women, while I do find Anderson extremely attractive so it's perhaps no surprise that I got a kick out of Snapdragon. There were a series of scenes sprinkled throughout featuring a naked Pamela in action, they were very sexy and did not disappoint. I don't think that you can ask for too much more from a Pamela Anderson vehicle to be perfectly honest. For what it's worth the best acting performance came from Chelsea Field, who is also kind of cute as well.

Pamela Anderson - how sweet, innocent and pure does she look in this one? Yes and hot and sexy too of course. But daymn her naive playfulness ... well let's not get ahead of ourselves. This came after Basic Instinct, which I have to rewatch and you would not be wrong for at least marginally comparing those two. But there is an added touch to this - no pun intended.

There's a lot of nudity (thrillers of the 90s ey?),but also a lot of madness. I had forgotten about the story, though sometime after half the movie was over I kinda remembered. I think I liked the twist back then, not sure how apparent it is to most or if they even care. And while Steven Bauer has been such a highlight in movies like Scarface and you might feel sorry for him .. don't! He got to play with Pam, so no, I refuse to feel sorry for him getting paid to do this. Apart from that (because after all it's play pretend as we know) this movie is ludicrous to say the least. The intentions are fine and I guess there are some grey areas, even if they're not as clear as they could be. Acting is stiff at times (sorry for the pun) and you'll either totally get Bauers character (smitten he is) or think he's a tool ... maybe both are true. The ending is also quite ... well I don't even know what to say. But Pamela ... (oh and Chelsea Fields is in this too, although she sort of plays second fiddle ... again with the innuendos)

Yours truly was a horny 14-year-old when he first watched "Snapdragon", and he only had one sole reason. To see Pamela Anderson's naked boobs! During that same period on television, she ran up and down beaches in a tight red swimsuit, but the breasts were never revealed, so of course I had to see this! I didn't really care about the plot or any other aspect of the film, in fact, I might even have fast-forwarded all the pointless footage in between Pam's topless sequences.

Almost 30 years and a revisit (without fast-forward) later, I can safely state that Pam's curvaceous body is still the only remotely worthwhile reason to watch "Snapdragon", especially because the past decades taught us that Mrs. Anderson never looked more beautiful than she did in 1993. As a stand-alone thriller, it's unbelievably weak. "Snapdragon" is a really lazy attempt to cash in on the tremendous success of "Basic Instinct", with almost identical elements like dangerously seductive blondes and even a very similar finale. Gorgeous blonde Felicity, suffering from amnesia and terrible nightmares, may or not be a fearsome serial killer who murders her male victims according to mythical Oriental rites. Steven Bauer is the helpless seduced man, and Chelsea Field (who keeps her bra on during sex; - utterly implausible) the strong and non-blonde female copper. There exist many legendary and notorious early 90s "Femme Fatale" thrillers, but this "Snapdragon" isn't one of them.