Also, if memory serves its actually a modernized version of Shakespeare or someone like that, so there's a hilariously high brow joke of "yeah, people thought his plays were trashy when they first came out too" thing going on with that one, but you don't actually need to get that to be entertained by it

e; I misremembered so I'll just quote the wiki page

Literary scholar John Thorburn notes that Wild Things is loosely based on several figures in Greek tragedies, namely Medea, whom he describes the character of Suzie as a "modern-day version of."[5] He also notes that Kelly functions as a Phaedra-like figure, while Sam exemplifies both Jason and Hippolytus.[6] Thorburn suggests that the film's "most under-appreciated element is screenwriter Stephen Peters’s obvious debt to classical mythology, tragedy and, especially, two Euripidean plays, Medea (431 BC) and Hippolytus (428 BC).[7] Suzie is met by police, Duquette and Perez, while reading Death on the Installment Plan.

I was 15 when it came out so yeah that checks out :)