Killer Workout (1987)

i must have seen a different film!!

Good start, but then it gets ruined

The movie is wildly uneven but lively and timely - in its own surreal way

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

As "Killer Workout" opens, a young model named Valerie learns that she's been hired for a major shoot, but that night, when she uses a tanning bed at a health & fitness spa, there's a bad accident, causing the machine to burn her. Years later, her twin sister Rhonda (Marcia Karr) is running her own spa, and the clientèle soon start to get killed by some psycho.As a low budget slasher designed to cash in on the fitness craze of the 1980s (and this movie just screams 1980s throughout), this would make agreeable viewing, alone or as a double feature with the equally silly "Death Spa". Overall, it's not as outrageously tacky as one might wish it to be, nor is it as hilarious in its awfulness as would be appreciated. Still, people looking to have a bad movie night would likely have a good time with this one.There's plenty of padding, but it's padding of the kind that many audience members will appreciate, with leering shots of well choreographed dancers grinding along to some insidiously catchy 80s style pop. The ladies are lovely, and the men are studly; their performances add a bit to the fun. Karr is entertainingly bitchy, while David James Campbell ("Scarecrows") is the required weary detective on the case. Ted Prior, brother of writer / director David A. Prior, and Fritz Matthews co-star; they also did "Deadly Prey" for David A. P. the same year as this. Teresa Van der Woude ("Night Visitor") and Joel Hoffman ("Pumpkinhead") have smaller roles.The much too talky finale and the resolution are not terribly satisfying, but getting there is still enjoyable.Six out of 10.

A vicious psycho bumps off assorted members of a fitness club run by the hard-nosed Rhonda Johnson (a perfectly bitchy portrayal by Marcia Karr). It's up to the rough'n'tumble Lt. Morgan (ripely overplayed by the brawny David James Campbell) to catch the wacko before things get too out of hand.Writer/director David Prior does a delectably dreadful job of covering all the pleasingly low-rent Grade B movie bases: The infectiously bouncy rock soundtrack, cruddy acting from the lame no-name cast, a few tacky false scares, the erratic pacing, a satisfying smattering of tasty gratuitous female nudity, the clumsily staged fight scenes and murder set pieces (the victims are stabbed to death with a safety pin!), plenty of hot babes in headbands, leotards, tank tops, and leg warmers bumping and grinding their constantly gyrating pelvises into a sexy'n'sweaty lather, the redundant hum'n'shiver synthesizer score, the gloriously hideous 80's fashions and hairstyles, and the surprise bummer ending all add substantially to this enjoyably atrocious stinker's considerable kitschy charm. An absolute schlocky hoot and a half.

Note: also released under the title Killer Workout. What an absolute masterpiece of So Bad It's Good filmmaking. Nothing makes sense. The acting is atrocious. The breasts are gratuitous. The main cop doesn't say a word for ages, then when he opens his mouth and you hear his ridiculous voice, you realise why. There's a fight scene that's like a cross between the ones in They Live (1988) and Hobgoblins (1988). I mean… It's a slasher film. It's set in a gym. It was made in 1987. I don't want to spoil it by saying anything else. Verdict: Track it down, order a pizza, and enjoy.

A random killings occur at an aerobics studio.Sexy exercising girls are murdered by an unknown maniac.The studio remains constantly open despite the growing pile of bodies.A cop played by David Cambpell of "Deadly Prey" fame starts investigating the crimes."Killer Workout" is VERY cheesy slasher flick that mixes "Flashdance" with "Halloween".The death scenes are plentiful and some of them even occur during various dream sequences.The workout scenes are drawn out and pretty hot,on the other hand the chase scenes are ineptly handled.The songs in "Killer Workout" are some of the cheesiest I have ever heard.7 out of 10.Fans of David Prior,Ted Prior and David Campbell will certainly enjoy this ultra-cheese.