Killer Workout

1987 "The workout will kill you!"
4.6| 1h24m| R| en
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Two years ago, a young woman named Valerie was burned after entering a tanning salon. Now, Rhonda runs a local gym where all of a sudden, people are being murdered.

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Shapiro Entertainment

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Also starring Dianne Copeland

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ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.
Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film
CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Tim (tim_sparks) I feel like this movie suffers from either "not enough nudity" or "excessive use of bimbos that have too many clothes on and no interesting dialogue or character development." If you raise the bar on the women themselves, it would be OK, or, if you gave me more nudity, it would also be OK.Having said that, this is a fairly decent entry into the "redonkulous 80's horror movie debacles" category.Nudity? Check. 80's fashion apocalypse? Check. Beefy guys with mullets homo-erotically fighting? Check. Soundtrack songs so kitchzy that you laugh out loud? Check. Puntastic title (Arobi-Cide!)? Check. Atrociously bad male acting that would make Shatner wince? Check. Oddly over the top facial expressions at random that don't fit the scene? Check. Aerobics moves that are probably actually some of the best sex moves you could ever expect out of your lady? Check. My favorite moment in this film aside from the porntastic aerobics moves was when the detective was chasing a bad guy and was trying to pull his gun out of his inside suit jacket pocket. As he reaches in he fumbles around and then extracts the gun clumsily from the pocket with a weird smile on his face that fades when he remembers he is in a dramatic scene,. It's my guess that this scene was tough on him and maybe there were like 34 other takes where he didn't get the gun out. So , he is probably experiencing pure joy that the damn prop gun came out of the damn pocket finally. I had to rewind and watch this again and I laughed out loud. Also, this actor's acting was so oddly .. off, that I immensely enjoyed every scene he stumbled his way through. I may actually seek out other movies that this guy is in to see if he is like this all the time. The unintentional hilarity of his performance is what sells this to me as an awesome 80's slasher flick.Kudos for his car too, I hope real detectives get better car's than that one! LOL!If you want this type of movie, you found it and you will love it.
bayardhiler This is one of those movies that going in, I knew it was going to be bad. Sure enough, it was; bad acting, overacting, forgettable music, more plot holes then you can drive a truck through, and then some. So, why am I giving this movie such a high score? Because, this is one of those movies that's so bad, its so damn good. The movie starts with an attractive model (we only see her body, not her face) just finding out that she got a top modeling job in Paris. To celebrate, she decides to go to a tanning salon (at night, mind you, but in typically cheesy fashion, there's an accident with the tanning bed, and our poor girl gets fried. Fast forward to Rhonda's workout, a start of the art aerobics studio thats run with an iron fist by a grumpy Rhonda (and probably grumpy actress, Marcia Karr). Then enters Jaimy, Rhonda's undependable employee, who shows up late, wearing her tight, black leotard and somehow having enough money to drive a Porsche. Before you know it, the clients start getting murdered, one by one, and enters the clueless, 80s tough guy cop (played by David James Campbell) who interrogates everybody but can't find the killer. The movie actually does manage to build a good mystery around the story, and keep in mind that we never saw the face of the girl that burned in the tanning bed. What's the connection? You'll just have to find out for yourself. To sum it up, this movie has everything (if you're a guy anyway) that you could possibly want: hot women that you just met who will take you to there home to make out, hot women wearing tight leotards, and, uh, hot women. If you're ever in the mood for some mindless fun, "Killer Workout" aka, "Aerobicide", is not a bad way to spend some time, especially with some friends. 8 out of 10
Master Cultist Highly entertaining slasher movie, that is the quintessence of 80's American horror. A gym full of lithe young things is being terrorised by an unknown killer. Could it be that it's a plot device to excuse lots of gratuitous shots of Lycra clad cleavage and backsides? Of course it could. The acting is rudimentary, if I'm feeling generous, and the scripting and direction roughly equivalent, but we don't expect miracles from cheap slashers, surely. That's about all there is to it. The gore quotient is fairly minimal, but the death scenes are effectively filmed, and tension is applied on occasion. I enjoyed it. Know that I shouldn't.
bfan83 **SPOILER WARNING!* I LOVE this movie! It is quite possibly the cheesiest slasher to come out of the 80s, but that's what is so irresistible about it! The plot concerns Rhonda (Marcia Karr) an overall unpleasant woman because several years earlier she was accidentally baked inside of a tanning bed while trying to get a tan so she could be on the cover of cosmopolitan. Due to this horrifying traumatic incident, she starts killing off the clients of her gym because she is jealous of their beauty! Talk about totally cheesy 80s slasher plot. KILLER WORKOUT also features the best weapon of choice - a large safety pin used to off the client's one by one! The acting is, of course, really atrocious. But it still maintains the neat 80s charm. The bad music, the bad fashions, the bad hair. I could go on and on. It was obviously made on a shoestring budget. But like I said, all of that gives it its charm. You must seek it out at once! If not for the atrocious acting and the unbelievable plot, then for it's totally awesome soundtrack! Only You Tonight has to be the best 80s pop song out there!