These movies thrive on showing skin to at least a certain degree, but Barrymore being a minor herself makes this movie more of a PG-13 affair, rather than R-rated. Not even sex on the hood of a car in the middle of the forest can change that. While she does play the seductive teen and shows quite some leg and an occasional side-boob the result is very underwhelming. When you try to buy this movie now most of the DVD covers feature Barrymore posing in some sexy lingerie or even less.
The sole selling point of it being Drew Barrymore in what supposedly is a movie full off steamy sex scenes. They hardly make movies like Poison Ivy anymore. Ivy manipulates the Coopers into taking her in and from there on slowly works her way completely into the lives of her adopted family by seducing the father and eventually even killing the mother. Silvie’s dad Darryl (Tom Skerritt) is a host of local TV show and her mother (Cheryl Ladd) is almost bedridden due to an illness. Ivy’s parents are dead and she lives with her aunt and goes to a private school on some sort of scholarship, or so she all says since the aunt is never seen. Poison Ivy revolves around the sexy teen Ivy who befriends the more reclusive geeky Silvie Cooper (Roseanne’s Sara Gilbert).
These movies almost always revolve around a femme fatale who uses sex to get what she wants and such is also the case in Poison Ivy, but because the femme fatale in this case was played by Drew Barrymore when she was around 16/17 years old the end result is pretty tame.
Erotic thrillers always balance on a fine line between being an actual thriller and venturing too much into (s)exploitation or in Poison Ivy’s case: venturing too little. The “erotic thriller” is a genre that flourished until somewhere in the 90s and then slowly slipped away into obscurity aside from some PG-13 teen stalker movies that occasionally pop up making no impression whatsoever.
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