FORMAT: DVD
Andy (Scott Tepperman) is a cop who gets kicked off the force after he assaults the man who murdered his family. His fuck-up childhood friend Nicky (Jim O’Rear) offers him a chance to start anew, so they open a strip club together. Things go great for a while until a psycho in a hoodie starts cutting up the dancers who work at the club. It’s then up to the budding business partners to find the killer before he sets his sights on the sexy Jade (Betsy Rue).
My Bloody Valentine 3-D’s Betsy Rue, Diff’rent Strokes’ Todd Bridges, and perennial tough guy Robert Lasardo are the only real stars of this low budget thriller. Written and directed by Tepperman and O’Rear, this is a fairly straightforward stripper whodunit. It’s the kind of thing that Roger Corman used to make in the ‘90s. Except that it looks way cheaper. And the ending sucks.
The big problem is that the flick spends too much time on the cop’s backstory. They should’ve just cut the first fifteen minutes and got right to the stripping. While there is a decent amount of nudity on display, unfortunately, Rue only has one brief sex scene. She gives what is easily the best performance of the film and it’s a shame she is stuck making movies like this because she should’ve become a household name after her work in My Bloody Valentine 3-D. (Although she is a household name in the Lovell household.)
The writing/directing/acting duo of Tepperman and O’Rear don’t have much in the way of screen presence or chemistry. That really stings because they’re in nearly every scene. Still, kudos to O’Rear for somehow managing to convince Rue to have a sex scene with him. It’s proof that anything is possible in Hollywood. I wonder if Betsy would star in a movie with me…
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