Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Murdercise, Babes, Gore, and Aerobics

Ah, the 80s! Remember those tight shiny aerobic costumes and leg warmers? Every babe star posed in them, even if they didn't do aerobics. Heather Locklear, Emma Samms, Heather Thomas, etc!  Thanks to filmmakers Paul Ragsdale and Angelica De Alba (A&P Productions), we have a babe filled gore-fest that brings all this 80s cheese back.  The cast is filled with babes clad in those outfits, or in nothing at all.  The gore is over-the-top...and it stars the bikini babe from PSYCHO APE , Kansas Bowling.  Today we look at 2023's "Murdercise."

Our film begins with a gratuitous shower scene, thanks to August Kyss. Okay, fast-forward...she's murdered by two thug cop imposters (Anthony Iava To'omata and Robert Fourre). They'll play big later in this film. A production company is filming a gratuitous aerobics video. The cast includes strippers, perverts, communists, and gangsters. They all look great bouncing up and down and all shiny in their costumes.  But wait!  There is a clean cut babe, though very homicidal, in the cast...Phoebe (Bowling). She desires to make a clean cut video...fat chance.  When a new cast member, a gangster's daughter, Isabella (Nina Lanea Kent) joins the team, the two become buddies.  Isabella loosens Phoebe up with cocaine and criminal wisdom.  Before she knows it, Phoebe is murdering her way to be selected cover girl for this video.

The beautiful will die horribly and in their shiny costumes.  Candy (Jessa Flux) will get it first...and this homicide will be accidental.  The rest of the homicides?  Well, they do say the first one is the hardest and the next are so much easier.  As brutal as Phoebe gets...she does charm us.  Sure she's a killer, but such a good girl.  Uh oh...the sultry Cassandra (Krystal Shay) inadvertently leads some serial killers to the studio.  What follows is more cheese, more gratuitous aerobic work-outs, and bloody gore.  All out war will ensue and at stake is who gets selected to be the cover girl for the video...and who gets to live.  Kiana Tom would be proud at what is put on the silver screen by Mr. Ragsdale and Ms. De Alba. Miss Bowling is sultry as well is all the cast.  The guys are all menacing goons but endearing in a slasher type of way.

Will the kind of clean cut Phoebe kill her way to be cover girl?  Will our serial killers strangle the life out of this aerobics video?  Are hot and shiny aerobic outfits what really did in the former Soviet Union?  If you want cheese in the film you watch tonight you won't find more than in this one.  Bring back those aerobic outfits, bring back the 80s slasher film, and bring back President Reagan...all that is satisfied in "Murdercise."

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