History YMMV / FATALATTRACTION

** There's also when Alex ''kidnaps'' Dan's daughter several days later, terrifying her parents -- and the viewer -- with the very real possibility that she could have harmed her if she wanted to, and indirectly leading to Dan's wife being injured in a car accident. It's not hard to see why this is the last straw for Dan.

* AccidentalAesop: Career women are bad, housewives are good.
* AccidentalAesop: Having sex with strangers is possibly deadly...AIDS became well known just around when this movie was released.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: A lot of viewers think that Ellen is a boy.

** As well as: "I'm not going to be ''ignored''!" Especially interesting in that, like so many of these famous lines, the original delivery is actually pretty understated. (Alex actually sounds more ''amused'' at Dan than anything else when she says it.)

** As well as: "I'm not going to be ''ignored''!"

* StrawmanHasAPoint: For all of Alex's crazed behavior, she's absolutely right that Dan has a moral and legal obligation to the child she's carrying.
** If it exists.
** And when Dan rebuffs her advances, saying "I have a whole relationship with someone else", she asks "Then what were you doing with me", pointing out his hypocrisy.

- The amusement park is Rye Playland. If the movie takes place in May, the amusement park would be open during the school days during the week.

* UnfortunateImplications: Alex is an unmarried thirty-something career woman. Despite initially being presented as intelligent, independent, and successful, she quickly goes completely off the deep end in her efforts to hang onto a man and have his baby.
** Mitigated by the portrayal of other career women in the movie -- they're perfectly happy with their lives. The unfortunate implications only stem from Alex's obvious mental illness (Borderline Personality Disorder).
** Plus the bunny boiling, which only exists so we can unambiguously see her as the villain and ignore Dan's own culpability.

* MoralEventHorizon: The "bunny boiler" incident. Gets cranked UpToEleven when Alex ''kidnaps'' Dan's daughter several days later, terrifying her parents -- and the viewer -- with the thought that she could have harmed her if she wanted to, and indirectly leading to Dan's wife being injured in a car accident.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Glenn Close played a pregnant woman on a murderous-rampage in the re-shot ending that we all know and love; she didn't find out she actually '''was''' pregnant with a little-girl during the filming of said-murderous-rampage until '''after''' she was rushed to the hospital with a concussion during a botched take. Needless to say, she does not like watching the finale to this day, having (unknowingly) risked her daughter's life filming it.

* UnfortunateImplications: Alex is an unmarried thirty-something career woman. Despite initially being presented as intelligent, independent, and successful, she quickly goes completely off the deep end in her efforts to hang onto a man and have his baby.

* SeinLanguage: After this movie, "bunny boiler" became a popular term for a crazy woman.

* MemeticMutation: These days, "cooking your rabbit" is slang for an out-of-control obsession.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: HeSaysSheSays all over the damn place. Is ''he'' to blame for cheating... or ''her'', for stalking? Which is worse? Does one merit the other as a punishment?