The Seduction is a 1982 American thriller film written and directed by David Schmoeller, and starring Morgan Fairchild, Michael Sarrazin, Vince Edwards, and Andrew Stevens.

Jamie Douglas is a beautiful, successful news writer and anchor in Los Angeles, in a stable relationship with her long-term boyfriend, Brandon.

Jamie begins receiving anonymous phone calls and flowers from a man named Derek, a psychotic photographer who is obsessed with her.

Initially, Jamie dismisses them as harmless flattery from an "admirer," until Derek retrieves her phone number and begins calling her house in the Hollywood Hills, as well as that of her neighbor, a fashion model named Robin.

Derek manages to access Jamie's dressing room at the office she works at, and gives her a box of candy, apologizing to her for his pestering calls.

Despite her accepting his apology for the phone calls, Derek continues to obsessively stalk Jamie, who is unaware that his home is adjacent to her property.

In response, Jamie begins to aggressively offer herself to him, unbuttoning his shirt and pants, but he quickly shows cowardice, unwittingly revealing he is impotent.

[1] Irwin Yablans served as a co-producer alongside Bruce Cohn Curtis, marking their third producing collaboration after Roller Boogie (1979) and Hell Night (1981).

[1] According to Fairchild, Schmoeller's screenplay was partly inspired by a real stalking case revolving around a Los Angeles newscaster who was harassed by an obsessed viewer.

[1] Producer Yablans had hoped to complete production before the June 30 expiry of the Directors Guild of America contract.

[5] Vincent Canby of The New York Times deemed the film "an often comically inept, unsuccessfully vicious nonthriller.

"[6] Jack Mathews of the Detroit Free Press published a one-star review, questioning whether viewers would spend $4 or $5 to see Morgan Fairchild unclothed in a laughably implausible thriller.