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Midnight Tease

Midnight Tease

Released Sep 30th, 1994
Running Time 76
Director Scott Levy
Company New Horizons Home Video
Cast Edmund Halley, Todd Joseph, Rachel Retd, Lisa Collins, Bob McFarland, Nicole Grey (I), Stephanie Sumers, Melissa Dutton, Cassandra Leigh, Ashley Riley, Gail Kingsley
Critical Rating Not Yet Rated
Genre Alternative

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The delectably sculpted redhead Cassandra Leigh plays Samantha, a staple character of T&A films: the stripper with a troubled past and a prickly attitude to mask her vulnerable heart of gold. Sammi is seeing a vaguely British shrink about her bad dreams, wherein she kills her abusive stepfather with a knife. Soon, in her dreams, her fellow strippers show up along with her stepfather, and her dream persona starts killing the girls, too. Trouble is (in case you didn't instantly guess), the strippers are killed in real life (real death?), too — and Sam, having that proverbial heart of gold, thinks she's the slasher. Her shrink, the incredibly stiff Edmund Halley, of course also falls for her, assuring her that not only did she not off her old man, neither is she wielding the knife now. This is a marvelous basis for a long-term relationship.

I'm making light of the stock slasher-babe plot, and the stock characters, but the really irritating thing about Midnight Tease is how well-done it is. It may be a bit p.c. of me, but I don't want to like a clichéd, manipulative, predictable, violence-against-women, incest-exploiting movie — but I did. Except for Halley, the acting is smooth, the production value's superb (especially the editing and the strip-club music — check out "Officer Pretty"), and the girls are gorgeous. While there's only one sex scene, the strip-club setting gives us almost nonstop stylish appetizing nudity — what more could you want?. Babes, boobs, blades, butts, blood: this is why they called 'em B-movies!



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