Stripped to Kill II: Live Girls

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Stripped to Kill II: Live Girls
Stripped to kill 2 poster 01.jpg
Directed by Katt Shea
Written byKatt Shea
Produced byAndy Ruben
executive
Roger Corman
Starring Maria Ford
Cinematography Phedon Papamichael
Edited byStephen Mark
Music byGary Stockdale
Production
company
Distributed by Concorde Pictures
Release date
  • March 31, 1989 (1989-03-31) [1]
Running time
82 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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).

Contents

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. [2]

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. [3]

Cast

Reception

Variety called it "a fairly engaging low-key thriller that achieves more than the usual." [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Stripped to Kill II". AFI Catalog of Feature Films . American Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 18, 2019.
  2. LAURIE HALPERN BENENSON (May 3, 1992). "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?". New York Times. p. 70.
  3. "Director Katt Shea talks about her 1980's Roger Corman produced films". TV Store Online. 3 Feb 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  4. "Stripped to Kill 2". Variety's film reviews 1989-1990. R.R. Bowker. 1991. p. 12 April 1989.