Double Threat

An also-ran in the increasingly-crowded field of erotic thrillers, DOUBLE THREAT at least has the smarts to take place in the belly of the beast itself, Hollywood, where the flesh-peddling aspects of the film biz gets a seriocomic sendup before the tale trips badly over itself.

Monica Martel (Sally Kirkland), a faded sex symbol trying to make a comeback in an erotic thriller, has a problem. "I've never had to do a nude scene in any of my films," she complains, "I'm not starting now." So the studio hires young beauty Lisa Shane (Sherrie Rose) to be the star's body double. Monica's vanity is wounded by the replacement, and it gets worse when Monica's leading man...