Stripped to Kill II: Live Girls explained

Stripped to Kill II: Live Girls
Director:Katt Shea
Producer:Andy Ruben
executive
Roger Corman
Starring:Maria Ford
Music:Gary Stockdale
Editing:Stephen Mark
Studio:Concorde Pictures
Distributor:Concorde Pictures
Runtime:82 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English

Stripped to Kill II: Live Girls is a 1989 American film directed by Katt Shea and starring Maria Ford. It is a sequel to Stripped to Kill (1987).

The film was made after Dance of the Damned. It had finished filming on Saturday and Roger Corman called and asked Shea if she could come up with a movie by Monday because he still had the strip joint set for a few more days. Shea and her crew went in on Monday and shot topless dancing footage for five days. She and partner Andy Ruben then took three weeks off to write a film about it.[1]

Writer-director Katt Shea later admitted:

I didn't have a script. I was almost shooting it and making it up as I went along. So when people tell me they love that movie so much I just kind of go 'why?' I didn't know what I was doing! I was flying by the seat of my pants completely! And it just amazes me because these other scripts that I've worked so hard on, I expect people to like them but Stripped to Kill 2, I was writing it as I went, honestly.[2]

Cast

Reception

Variety called it "a fairly engaging low-key thriller that achieves more than the usual."[3]

Notes and References

  1. News: How 'Poison Ivy' Got Its Sting: The studio wanted a teen-age 'Fatal Attraction.' Katt Shea's movie may be more than that. 'Poison Ivy': Art or Exploitation?. LAURIE HALPERN BENENSON. May 3, 1992. New York Times. 70.
  2. News: Director Katt Shea talks about her 1980's Roger Corman produced films. TV Store Online. 3 Feb 2015. 21 April 2015.
  3. Book: 1991. Variety's film reviews 1989-1990. R.R. Bowker. Stripped to Kill 2. 12 April 1989.