6/10
like, totally 1980s horror cheese
20 November 2004
A woman is burned in a tanning bed at a spa. Later, at another place "Rhonda's Work-Out" women are being killed, most often by a giant safety pin.

There are a lot of long scenes with exploitive camera-work covering the women doing their workouts to cheesy 80s music in their cheesy '80s outfits (day-glo colors, strange patterns, leg warmers) showing off cleavage, buttocks and big hairstyles. There are some muscle men in the gym, two of whom keep getting into fights. Surprisingly, there's relatively little nudity. There isn't a whole lot of gore either, although it does seem like bodies were being put into white body bags fairly often. One of the men carrying a bag away even says "see you tomorrow!"

At one point vandals spray-paint one of Rhonda's windows with "Aerobicide" and "Death Spa." The first is an AKA for this movie (also the title of one of the songs in the movie), the second happens to be the title of a movie similar to this one, but made two years later (Death Spa AKA Witch Bitch). It's too bad they don't belong to the same distributor, because if they were ever to come out on DVD, they'd make a logical double feature for a single disc.
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