SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

TeenzTen An action-packed slog

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Sarita Rafferty 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.

jellopuke This movie has one of those soundtracks that literally describes what is happening on screen, but its all cheesy 80's music so it's awesome. There are loads of aerobics montages with gratuitous crotch shots and zoom ins on the girls in skimpy outfits which I guess is cool if you're into that. The plot is standard and the gore isn't much to look at, but it's a corny fun that makes this worth watching.

FlashCallahan It's almost pointless to give a film like this a proper plot summary. Girl has an accident on a sun bed, flash forward two years later, and someone is killing members of a gym with a giant safety pin. It doesn't matter though the patrons are more or less seeing the murders downright before their eyes, but still return the next day.So it's up to your atypical grizzled detective from the eighties to solve the crime, not that you'd need a degree in criminology to guess the outcome of the film......it's not exactly Se7en......If you were to take away the prolonged dance sequences and workouts, then you would a have a very short film indeed, and this is because the makers wanted to pad their film, because there isn't much of a plot, and even less of a narrative.So all you can do is sit back and tolerate the garish eighties clothing, the wonderfully ridiculous big hair, and the occasional murder with a giant safety pin.There is some sort of strange twist at the end of the film, featuring the tables being turned, but even though it's only a slight film, you feel like you've sat through a four hour training video on how to use gym equipment safely.Not good, the burn make up almost makes the film worth watching, but at the end of the day, it's only a cash in on the slasher movie.See Death Spa instead.

Woodyanders 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.

stephen kehoe (impossiblehim) Big hair, big boobs, bad music and a giant safety pin.......these are the words to best describe this terrible movie. I love cheesy horror movies and i've seen hundreds..but this had got to be on of the worst ever made. The plot is paper thin and ridiculous, the acting is an abomination, the script is completely laughable(the best is the end showdown with the cop and how he worked out who the killer is-it's just so damn terribly written), the clothes are sickening and funny in equal measures, the hair is big, lots of boobs bounce, men wear those cut tee-shirts that show off their stomachs(sickening that men actually wore them!!) and the music is just synthesiser trash that plays over and over again...in almost every scene there is trashy music, boobs and paramedics taking away bodies....and the gym still doesn't close for bereavement!! All joking aside this is a truly bad film whose only charm is to look back on the disaster that was the 80's and have a good old laugh at how bad everything was back then.