Synopsis
A model poses nude for men's magazines and acts in slasher movies. Her psycho bodybuilder boyfriend gets jealous and starts killing other men.
1989 Directed by Brian Thomas Jones
A model poses nude for men's magazines and acts in slasher movies. Her psycho bodybuilder boyfriend gets jealous and starts killing other men.
This was so stupid by the end, that I started to love it, but too little too late.
A film within the film called "Here Comes My Ax, There Goes Your Head" is genius comic relief with half naked actresses lightly jogging away from an axeman screaming like the digimon from that Playstation game Digimon World (too specific a reference?). But the greatest thing about it is that it's intercut with the final killer confrontation. I like how something THIS blatantly a slasher never begged my attention until May of 2015, but the murders do leave something to be desired. A couple (albeit bloody) stabbings in the stomach, a throat cut, a found body, a shotgun blast... the gore doesn't…
I remember the VHS cover from when I was a kid. I think my dad rented it back in the day. It was the lead actress in a sailor suit ready to take off her jacket and expose her breasts on a magazine cover with somebody else holding the magazine and a knife at her chest. It was the allure of sex and death in a scintillating image, and a much better poster than the one currently shown on Letterboxd which is fairly generic Skinemax.
I could never remember the name of the movie though, always thinking it had Stripped or Stripped to Death (a different movie). And so, 30 years after the movie imprinted on my brain, I’m finally getting to…
Apparently i'd seen this film before but remembered nothing from it. Pretty telling. This movie really isn't that bad though, it's exactly what you'd expect- a lot of cheesiness, intentional and unintentional comedy, bad dialogue, and an excess of naked women and exercise montages. It's surprisingly light on the gore however. In fact, this isn't exactly a slasher although it was marketed as one; really more of a thriller/suspense and a dark comedy making fun of the then recent trends in horror films. Lots and lots of poking fun at horror tropes and all the different Hollywood types.
The fact that it's tongue in cheek makes it a lot more palatable, and it's a fun watch. I'd probably do it…
Posed for Murder is a slasher/stalker film that lacks on almost every front. The only positive that I pulled out of this is that it is the film debut of playmate Charlotte J. Helmkamp as the leading lady that works for a playboy type magazine and is being stalked by some unsavory individual. At the same time an ex-boyfriend is released from prison right as all of this begins. The film is pretty boring there are a couple of kills, which none of them are too memorable. Helmkamp shows off her body a few times and is surprisingly the best actor in the film. The only good thing to come out of this is probably a little exposure for Helmkamp to get her next role for Frankenhooker, where she is kind of my favorite in that film.