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20 years ago, GoldenEye hit theaters and introduced the world to Pierce Brosnan‘s cool and campy James Bond. It revitalized Bond for a Generation X audience and gave Sean Bean a chance to die not once, but twice onscreen. The film also introduced the world to the idea of “death by thighs.”

Let’s talk for a moment about Xenia Onatopp. Famke Janssen‘s sadistic Bond girl was a study in the strange intersection of sex and violence. Both titillate audiences — especially Bond’s fan base — but rarely has the fetishization of violence been so perfectly and maniacally captured than by Xenia Onatopp. She’s a vamp and an assassin, but she also orgasms when she murders someone. It’s just like Fifty Shades of Grey except with DEATH.

While she is as comfortable in a fighter jet as she is shooting a gun, Onatopp’s signature move is crushing a man to death with her thighs while they are in coitus. We watch her employ this move to dispatch an Admiral and later she attempts it on James Bond in one of the most memorable scenes in all of the super spy’s history. At least, I can’t think of GoldenEye without thinking of this scene. Then again, I saw this film for the first time at the incredibly naive and extremely impressionable age of 11. Naturally, I was both scarred and enlightened.

In the infamous scene, Xenia tries to simultaneously seduce and destroy Bond in a sauna…and he somehow manages to get the upper hand. How? Because he’s James Bond and for him this is just “foreplay.” Really? You call this foreplay?

Okay, maybe it is foreplay, but it’s simultaneously erotic and grotesque. Yeah, there’s something kinky about a man and a woman going at it, but the looks on their faces and the brutality of foreplay is borderline laughably bizarre. It’s so unrealistic and yet all-too-visceral to handle. In short: it’s an absolutely bonkers scene that not only fits in well with the world of James Bond, but could never make sense anywhere else. AND I LOVE IT.