Dead Women In Lingerie

Attempting to meld social-issue melodrama with stalk-and-kill thrills, the low-budget DEAD WOMEN IN LINGERIE winds up borrowing the worst from each genre. Strangely, it only really comes alive when it threatens to break stride completely and turn into an out-and-out comedy.

Molly Field (Maura Tierney) designs frilly little nothings for women that are sewn and sold from an LA sweatshop owned by antacid-chugging Bartoli (Jerry Orbach), who almost exclusively employs undocumented Mexican and South American aliens as seamstresses, shippers and models. When the models start turning up dead wearing her designs, Molly turns to klutzy private eye Nick Marnes (John Romo)...