The seventh Bad Movie Club bad movie night theme was Fitness, and we got the ball rolling hard and fast with David A. Prior's 'Killer Workout' (AKA 'Aerobicide'). After losing her twin sister Valerie in a terrible tanning accident, Rhonda becomes the owner of Rhonda's Workout, a gym where folks just keep dancercising even though people keep dropping dead all around them. An undercover detective (Ted Prior) joins the gym to try to get to the bottom of the murders but is unable to stop the bloodbath before it is too late. 'Killer Workout' is a classic 80's slasher that is absolutely worth seeing. Where else can you see a guy get stabbed in the leg with a rake and then roundhouse kick his attacker into a swimming pool?
2. Body Melt
The first phase is hallucinogenic... the second phase is glandular... and the third phase is...
By no stretch of my imagination is 'Body Melt' anything close to being a bad movie, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to show it to a captive audience! This Australian oddity is so amazing and bizarre that it defies categorization. Suffice to say it is a spectacle that everyone should be so lucky to witness. A corporation called Vimuville produces a new type of vitamin guaranteed to make you healthier and they test it out on the population of a cul-de-sac. The problem is that the vitamins make people freak out and makes their bodies do all sorts of disgusting things. I won't spoil it any more than that, but I will suggest that everyone see this movie right away. I can't call it a bad movie, so in that sense it didn't really work for Bad Movie Night, but it was totally worth it.
3. Death Spa
Michael Fischa directed three movies in 1989 - 'My Mom's a Werewolf', 'Crack House', and 'Death Spa'. Regretfully, I haven't seen 'Crack House', but of the two I have seen, I'd say 1989 was a pretty great year for Fischa. Aside from the fact that 'Death Spa' (AKA 'Witch Bitch') has a decidedly supernatural story line, it is very similar to 'Killer Workout' which was released one year prior (not that I'm complaining - I love them both - it just seems odd). The owner of Michael's Health Spa is still distraught after the suicide death of his wife, and he blames his brother-in-law David for a series of deaths that have occurred in the gym. The rest is a pretty fantastic blend of 80's workout scenes, bizarre and gory deaths, exploding heads and spectral electrocutions. It was the perfect end to an awesome night of (mostly) bad movies, and I don't know about you but now I feel like hitting the gym!
The seventh Bad Movie Club bad movie night theme was Fitness, and we got the ball rolling hard and fast with David A. Prior's 'Killer Workout' (AKA 'Aerobicide'). After losing her twin sister Valerie in a terrible tanning accident, Rhonda becomes the owner of Rhonda's Workout, a gym where folks just keep dancercising even though people keep dropping dead all around them. An undercover detective (Ted Prior) joins the gym to try to get to the bottom of the murders but is unable to stop the bloodbath before it is too late. 'Killer Workout' is a classic 80's slasher that is absolutely worth seeing. Where else can you see a guy get stabbed in the leg with a rake and then roundhouse kick his attacker into a swimming pool?
Michael Fischa directed three movies in 1989 - 'My Mom's a Werewolf', 'Crack House', and 'Death Spa'. Regretfully, I haven't seen 'Crack House', but of the two I have seen, I'd say 1989 was a pretty great year for Fischa. Aside from the fact that 'Death Spa' (AKA 'Witch Bitch') has a decidedly supernatural story line, it is very similar to 'Killer Workout' which was released one year prior (not that I'm complaining - I love them both - it just seems odd). The owner of Michael's Health Spa is still distraught after the suicide death of his wife, and he blames his brother-in-law David for a series of deaths that have occurred in the gym. The rest is a pretty fantastic blend of 80's workout scenes, bizarre and gory deaths, exploding heads and spectral electrocutions. It was the perfect end to an awesome night of (mostly) bad movies, and I don't know about you but now I feel like hitting the gym!
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