30 September Slashers: Day 13-Killer Workout

I know I have said this before but I thought today might be a good time to remind all you fiends out there that here at Destroy the Brain, we realize that there are more popular slashers than what we are covering.  We realize that Honeymoon Horror is not considered one of the top ten slashers of all time, however, we thought 30 September Slashers might be a good opportunity to cover some films that you might not have seen before.  Tonight we will continue our week long coverage of slashers that have yet to receive a proper DVD release in the U.S.  So sit back, get on your spandex and get ready to burn some calories as you dig into the 1986 film Killer Workout a.k.a. Aerobicide.

Day 13:  Tone Up, Work on a Tan, Get Murdered…..Killer Workout

This film opens with a soon to be famous model, in preparation for a trip to Paris, deciding to work on her tan but the tanning bed breaks and she is burned to death, or is she?  What soon follows is about an hour and twenty minutes cut between watching spandex laden hotties jamming to the oldies, dudes lifting weights, and gym rats being cut down with an over sized safety pin.  The main characters include Rhonda(the owner of Rhonda’s workout), a cop who thinks he is Dirty Harry, a creepy new employee who works at the gym, and a roided out psycho named Jimmy.

This movie was all over the place.  I had no idea who the hell the main characters were for about the first forty minutes and was left wondering why the hell people kept coming back to the gym if multiple people get killed off every day?  All that aside, I would say that it was a damn fun watch and while not the Casablanca of slasher films, it is just the kind of film that I would have loved watching when I was 15.  The kills were frequent enough to keep my attention and the cheese factor of the 80s workout attire and music made for a humorous experience.  Had I walked into Videos Unlimited(my town video store) and rented this film, I would have left feeling my $1.25 was well spent.

Unlike the film last night, I would highly recommend picking this film up if you can find the VHS.  If you are in the mood to be transported back to the 80s, when Jayne Fonda ruled the workout tape scene, then this is the flick for you.  A flick that demands a DVD release because it would have an audience. Lets keep the momentum going with tomorrow’s feature film, the never released on DVD, yet highly accessible New Year’s Evil.