Animal Instincts is a 1992 American erotic thriller drama film directed by Gregory Dark and starring Maxwell Caulfield, Shannon Whirry, Jan-Michael Vincent and David Carradine.

While they love each other, their marriage is in a precarious position, as David's sexual impotence prevents them from being intimate with each other.

Problems arise, however, when the local mob learns about their sexual activities, and their leader (Carradine) blackmails them to videotape an encounter with a crooked politician (Vincent).

[4] Animal Instincts was rated R in the United States for explicit sexual material and profanity.

[8] Radio Times magazine gave two out of five stars to the film, describing it as "the thriller that made Shannon Whirry a favourite of the top-shelf brigade", and writing "Director Gregory Hippolyte, who became one of the genre's leading directors, presents the many couplings with some panache, but he can't hide the fact that this is really just Emmanuelle for the 1990s.