Stripped To Kill II: Live Girls

This film delivers on its lurid title for B-movie thrill-seekers, but it also offers something more: an uncommonly sympathetic look at a world to which mainstream cinema rarely devotes serious screen time nowadays. As the film opens, Shady (Maria Ford), one of the strippers at the Paragon Club, is suffering from a disturbing dream in which one of her fellow strippers (Lisa Glaser) gets brutally murdered at the climax of her club act by a masked woman with a razor blade in her mouth. Shady wakes up--with blood on her own mouth. LIVE GIRLS really isn't much of a mystery thriller. Though the film is overrun with red herrings, the real killer's identity is none too sub...