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5.2/10
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Gruesome deaths begin to occur at a hip Los Angeles health club.Gruesome deaths begin to occur at a hip Los Angeles health club.Gruesome deaths begin to occur at a hip Los Angeles health club.
Francis X. McCarthy
- Lt. Fletcher
- (as Frank McCarthy)
Tane McClure
- Vicky
- (as Tané McClure)
Vanessa Bell Calloway
- Marci Hewitt
- (as Vanessa Bell)
David Shaughnessy
- Freddie
- (as David James Shaughnessy)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaThe extras in the shower scene were obtained from a porn casting agency.
- GoofsWhen Michael has left doctor Moray's office, we see the cops who are starting their car just around the corner. As they round the corner, Michael's Porsche is still parked. In the next shot, the Porsche is suddenly gone.
- Alternate versionsThe Chinese Laserdisc is NOT uncut! A full-length Gore Scene is missing. The German Video Version is heavily cut.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Gorgon Video Magazine (1989)
- SoundtracksI'm On Fire
Performed by People
Composed by Kevin Williams
Motley Bitter Music (BMI)
Featured review
Delivers What It Should
Death Spa (1989)
*** (out of 4)
Michael (William Bumiller) runs a health club that's the biggest thing in the city thanks to new technology that allows a computer system to run things. However, things take a dark turn when a couple members are severely injured and after more deaths happen it appears there's something much darker at play.
If you rented videos back in the 80s or 90s then I'm sure you stumbled across this film in the horror section at some point. I must have passed the video by countless times, picked it up a few times but I never left the store with it. After all, it's a horror movie set in a health club, how good could that be? Now that I've finally caught up with the picture I can't help but be disappointed in myself for not giving it a shot back in the day.
Look, if you're wanting high art or some sort of hard-hitting drama then you're not going to find it here. DEATH SPA is basically a low-budget slasher movie that appears to have been directed by someone who knew what the people watching a film like this wanted to see. Director Michael Fischa and writers James Bartruff and Mitch Paradise all do a wonderful job because what you've basically got here are a bunch of gory murders and a bunch of hot ladies taking their clothes off. These are staples of the VHS-era and this film offers plenty of both.
I really liked the death scenes in the film as they were not only creative but we also got some extremely gory moments. There are several highlights among the death scenes but there's one where a woman gets some sort of acid on her and just gets eaten away. As for the nudity, yeah, there's the required shower sequence but with a twist. DEATH SPA certainly isn't a masterpiece and it really would have benefited by being ten-minutes shorter but at the same time this is exactly what a film should be like if it wants to be in that low-budget horror field.
*** (out of 4)
Michael (William Bumiller) runs a health club that's the biggest thing in the city thanks to new technology that allows a computer system to run things. However, things take a dark turn when a couple members are severely injured and after more deaths happen it appears there's something much darker at play.
If you rented videos back in the 80s or 90s then I'm sure you stumbled across this film in the horror section at some point. I must have passed the video by countless times, picked it up a few times but I never left the store with it. After all, it's a horror movie set in a health club, how good could that be? Now that I've finally caught up with the picture I can't help but be disappointed in myself for not giving it a shot back in the day.
Look, if you're wanting high art or some sort of hard-hitting drama then you're not going to find it here. DEATH SPA is basically a low-budget slasher movie that appears to have been directed by someone who knew what the people watching a film like this wanted to see. Director Michael Fischa and writers James Bartruff and Mitch Paradise all do a wonderful job because what you've basically got here are a bunch of gory murders and a bunch of hot ladies taking their clothes off. These are staples of the VHS-era and this film offers plenty of both.
I really liked the death scenes in the film as they were not only creative but we also got some extremely gory moments. There are several highlights among the death scenes but there's one where a woman gets some sort of acid on her and just gets eaten away. As for the nudity, yeah, there's the required shower sequence but with a twist. DEATH SPA certainly isn't a masterpiece and it really would have benefited by being ten-minutes shorter but at the same time this is exactly what a film should be like if it wants to be in that low-budget horror field.
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- Also known as
- Witch Bitch - Tod aus dem Jenseits
- Filming locations
- Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA(additional location)
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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