Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Simply A Masterpiece

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Roger Corman the king of the B movie usually has pretty interesting movies to watch and with this one it's not the greatest still it's a watch for it's story of a strip club being stalked by a killer as strippers are being murdered one by one! At the Rock Bottom dance club in L.A. one by one strippers are turning up dead and this has a detective named Cody(Kay Lenz from 1986's "House")to go undercover as a stripper to get inside the club and strip to help find the killer! On stage she meets some wild characters as these girls are strange they have family problems, drug problems still that doesn't take away from the fact that they look sexy dancing on the pole in their outfits and look good in their sexy colored bras! This film leads you down the dark and wild wicked mean streets of Los Angeles it also stars Greg Evigan(from "BJ and the Bear" and "My Two Dads" fame)as Cody's partner friend and one night stand. Overall this is an exciting suspense sexy thriller that twist with a surprise find when the killer is revealed!

Typically Roger Corman. A great title, promising subject, a brilliant poster, but ultimately, not remotely as good as you hoped it would be.Saw it during the early Nineties when it hit our video circuit. I am a South African, and pictures like this couldn't get past our Draconian censors (churchgoing elders, you know that painting, 'American Gothic'? Something like that!) during 1987.I have largely forgotten the movie, just remembered the title and that it had an eye- catching poster. Took me years and years to find it on DVD. Watched it this afternoon. It has good moments. But more bad moments.First off, strippers and slasher movies, aw for crying out loud, what a sick society! This is the only way to make it acceptable to feature a stripper movie? If they are brutally killed? I could give Freudian lectures on that one.There is some very nice bodies on the stage. As my regulars would know by this time, I go for classy, dainty chicks, long legs, nice hair, fine features, and some of those are here. Not all. But the DVD has kinda dull picture quality, image starts jumping twice for a while, and it all looks like it's been converted from a shoddy film projector to VHS to DVD, and without my prerequisite picture sharpness, I keep staring aghast at the image I paid Big Bucks for to have it imported from Amazon through local big shark WantItAll, and it looks like it has been through every drive-in theater in the Southern States. So I'm not thrilled at this moment in time. It must have looked a whole lot better back in 1987.My main point? Look at the title. Something much better could have been done. The kind of people who would unreservedly like this kind of movie, voyeurs who also like gore, is a very creepy group. I am that one kind of pervert, but definitely not the other. Perhaps if you had a story of girls that go missing at a strip club, and Detective Cody posed undercover uncovered, yeah. I am that kind of pervert, but all these violent deaths, bloody faces, burning bodies... Aw shucks man. Or, aw shucks m'am, for the director was (a just as bad) woman. Most people attending this show is there to see the girls, and (hopefully!) not to see the blood, so why couldn't they have been pandered to properly?SPOILER bit: I'll watch it again, but that guy couldn't have been his own sister. We saw him spying on her, and hugging her. Yeah, I watched a fuzzy movie and I am confused.

Those of you (And myself included) that enjoy sleazy and low budget exploitation films will find it difficult to ignore this little gem. How can you not be interested in a film about strippers, murders, and a well known actress cast in the lead that also strips? Admit it, you can't! Story is about Detective Cody Sheenan (Kay Lenz) who along with her obnoxious partner Heineman (Greg Evigan) accidentally come across a stripper being burned to death but the murderer gets away. The dead stripper works at the Rock Bottom strip joint and Heineman gets an idea of convincing Cody to go undercover there and find out what she can. Cody can't dance and is not sure about her fellow cops looking at her topless but she decides to do it. Heineman makes sure that she wins amateur night that enables her to get hired by the club owner Ray (Norman Fell) who gives her an opportunity despite her terrible dancing. *****SPOILER ALERT*****Cody gets to know each of the girls and the dead stripper turns out to be the lover of Roxanne (Pia Kamakahi) who is also a dancer there. After time passes Cody starts to perfect her dance routines and actually becomes pretty good. Unfortunately her superiors tell her to stop but she doesn't want to because it seems to have liberated her and also she feels that she is getting closer to finding the murderer.This film is directed by Katt Shea Ruben who is competent at making entertaining low budget efforts but one of the flaws in this film is the amount of dancing that takes place. Every stripper in this film has her routine shown and it's not cut down in length at all. Each of the dances goes on and on for countless minutes. This film was co-produced by Roger Corman and it never ceases to amaze me how Corman can get a popular actress in his projects and get them to take their clothes off. To this day people are still talking about Angie Dickinson's nude scenes in "Big Bad Mama". Kay Lenz gets topless here in a few scenes and she's absolutely beautiful to look at but she's also a very good actress even in low budget junk like this and she's pretty good here. One thing that I did not buy was the forced romantic angle of the film between her and Evigan. He comes across as a big sleaze bag and he actually lies to Lenz about her assignment to go undercover and get topless which turned out to be for his own benefit. She was never assigned and she got topless for nothing! Some partner! I don't want to knit pick too much on a film like this because it's too easy so I'll just mention again that Lenz looks great and does a good job and Fell is fun as the grouchy club owner. This film also has an ending that you won't see coming so there is enough going on here for me to recommend it.

A cop goes undercover and uncovered at a local strip joint to find out who is killing the dancers. Shockingly enough, the dance numbers are far too excessive considering this was written and directed by a female. It does however have character development, realisitc dialogue, and it is even a bit thought provoking too! Followed by an inferior sequel.