If you have a taste, as I do, for deliriously bad movies, Wild Orchid comes highly recommended. It's the most pretentiously ludicrous movie I've seen since Siesta.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 9, 2023

One of the most involuntarily laughable films I've seen to date. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 2, 2022

Zalman King-of Blue Sunshine fame-left it mischievously unclear, probably for notoriety reasons. Watch to judge for yourself.

| Jan 20, 2022

Character development and its semblance of a narrative appear to be roughly hewn afterthoughts, its most pronounced moments revolving around extremely stylized sexual congress between several different characters.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 29, 2020

No connoisseur of the preposterous should miss it.

| Apr 10, 2019

You know you're in trouble when even Jacqueline Bisset can't save a film.

| Feb 1, 2018

Ghastly piece of soft-core porn from Zalman King, the trashmaster behind the Red Shoe Diaries series.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 1, 2018

Not unsurprisingly dug from the very same creative depths responsible for 9 1/2 Weeks.

| Feb 1, 2018

If Wild Orchid were a little bit sillier, it might classify as a minor classic of howling camp. As it is, the movie is pseudo-swanky, chic and sappy.

| Feb 1, 2018

Less a classic and more a curiosity, Wild Orchid is a cult piece of Eighties erotica that was panned at the time but now is weirdly fascinating.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2016

[UPDATED 2025 REVIEW] Writer-director Zalman King's Wild Orchid could be considered the Fifty Shades of Grey of its day: a would-be erotic romp that ultimately carries as much of a sexual charge as a Chicken McNugget.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 4, 2015

| Original Score: D- | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: D- | Apr 12, 2011

If Wild Orchid aims to grab audiences with a hot-house atmosphere of erotica, it mainly teases.

| Apr 12, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 29, 2008

Even within its own terms the film is a disaster: all the acting is pathetic, the pacing poor, and the pay-off copulation scene merely mechanical.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 16, 2005

Demonstrates just how tedious and coy a soft-core porn film can be.

| Aug 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 23, 2004