Streaming subscribers have constantly shown themselves to be a saucy bunch, with any erotic thriller being added to any notable platform destined to capture the imagination of an audience desperate to indulge in some cinematic titillation, something The Voyeurs has in spades.
Much like many of its skin-showing contemporaries, though, critics and audiences weren’t left best pleased wit what they ended up getting. Writer and director Michael Mohan’s increasingly preposterous Hitchcockian wannabe could only rustle up a Rotten Tomatoes score of 43 percent, with viewers ranking it ever so slightly higher at a still-lukewarm 46 percent.
If you go into the film seeking nothing more than writhing bodies, wall-to-wall copulation, and gratuitous volumes of nudity, then The Voyeurs comes packing that in absolute spades as Sydney Sweeney and Justice Smith move into a brand new apartment, only to get a lot more than they bargained for when they begin spying on their neighbors, something that rapidly evolves into a twisted obsession on behalf of both parties.
There’s not much you won’t have seen before both in terms of story and salacious scenes, but the fact the film has thrown off the shackles of not being very good to become a Top 10 hit on Prime Video in multiple countries around the world (per FlixPatrol) is another reminder that on-demand users simply don’t care about quality when the promise of getting hot under the collar is right in front of them.
Hardly orgasmic on an artistic level, but there’s plenty of them to around onscreen, that’s for sure.