Remember those highly sexualized ‘90s thrillers where our stoic leading man is threatened and nearly killed by a crazed woman driven mad by desire?

Alicia Silverstone does — and “Pretty Thing,” a contemporary battle of the sexes available on streaming platforms Friday, offers a response.

“This is a nod to the ‘90s erotic thriller with typically women who, if they are sexual, they’re also crazy. Or murderers. Or something — you know, they are gonna try and kill you.”

Silverstone’s Sophie has a high-paying job marketing pharmaceuticals. “She’s unapologetically sexual and she also is in her power,” she said in a Zoom interview.

Elliot (Karl Glusman), her pick-up at the restaurant where he’s a busboy, is, “The one that is unraveling. He’s dangerous and manipulative.”

Sophie, Silverstone points out, “is doing exactly what men do all the time — which is have a fling and move on. This is what the world is today. With hookups online, women are doing what men have been casually doing forever.”

But “Pretty Thing” notes a sober reality: Women may be emancipated but they can be physically and emotionally threatened in ways that men often are not.

Sophie does self-defense. We see her in boxing classes. “The feminist part comes in where she’s not able to extricate herself the way maybe a man might be able to by threatening somebody and say, ‘Don’t screw with me.’

“Instead, she continues to be harassed until we get to what I felt was really a crazy, wonderful but shocking finale.”

Despite the inherent imbalance of this doomed coupling, “I also think,” she said, “it’s romantic. In the beginning, you feel like this could be a beautiful romantic story.

“Sophie goes on a few dates — they’re very exciting dates. She takes him to Paris. It’s all really sexy and romantic and feels good.

“By the third date she realizes they’re not a good match. She wants to move on. And he doesn’t, and yeah, there goes the rub.”

Was Sophie’s big mistake taking him to Paris when she’s on a business trip?

“If that were a guy taking a woman on a trip, you wouldn’t think twice about it, right?” Silverstone responded. “It’s these roles, these ideas that we’ve become accustomed to.

“She genuinely thinks he’s lovely — I don’t think she’s thinking much further than this feels good. Keep going. Why should she think anything other than that?

“And when it stops feeling good, she wants it to end. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. But she finds that she’s afraid and doesn’t feel like she has anyone to turn to and just takes matters into her own hands. She tries to threaten him.

“She comes with a bunch of money and tries to pay him off. She tries to scare him, threaten him, get him out of her life. But he’s dangerous.

“Because he fell in love with her. Or the idea of her. They did have something very romantic and sweet at first. It’s unfortunate, but it happens to everyone.

“I mean, I’ve had dates with men and you get hopeful and think, ‘Oh, this could be something.’

“Then you go, ‘No! It’s not.’ But you thought it was for a minute, and there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s what dating is.”

“Pretty Thing” is available on streaming platforms