Slash Dance Movie Review

Trailer here.

Slash Dance is a 1989 horror movie directed by James Shyman and starring Cindy Ferda.

The film begins with a girl called Alice who is supposed to audition for a part. She looks around but there is nobody there. She searches for someone and a killer emerges and murders her. Cut to a cop called Tori(Ferda). She works undercover. The Captain isn't impressed with her work. Her partner is called Jeff and he likes her. She beats up two men in a ridiculous scene where she is dressed as a bag lady.  We discover that her sister, Janet, died of an overdose. A drug dealer is responsible so she shot him. Another women shows up for an audition and she goes the same way as the previous girl.

A weirdo called Amos(J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner) works at a local theatre. He frightens the girls who come to audition .Tori is assigned to the case. She will go undercover and audition for a show in the theatre. Two local women ask Tori to help them track down a girl called Alice. The Captain wants Tori taken off the case but Jeff tells him that she has already started. Tori goes to the theatre and she sees Amos. A famous director called Logan Bridger(James Carroll Jordan) is going to be directing the show. The stage manager is called Rupert. Tori is lucky enough to be chosen for the show. Jeff shows up and he tells her that the captain wants her off the case. She asks him to pretend that he can't get in contact with her. Logan also likes Tori. He asks her out. They kiss.

One of the other girls called Holly gets attacked. Tori asks Amos if he did it. He tells her it wasn't him. Amos finds a rubber knife in the prop department and he is going to use to play a trick .Unfortunately, someone replaces it and when he pretends to stab himself, he really does and he dies. The cops are called in. Amos' brother talks to the police. The previous owner of the theatre died under suspicious circumstances. He left the theatre to his son, but he died so now his other son Oliver has it, but he wants to close it. Tori finds that her gun is missing. The killer shows up and he is after Tori. The killer turns out to be Logan. He says that the man who owned the theatre in the past did awful things to him. He hung him as he wanted revenge. He kills Oliver. He tries to kill Tori but she throws a stiletto at him and manages to hit him perfectly on the head! He chases her and they have a struggle. She manages to hit him and kill him with a saw. The film ends with another girl coming for an audtion. I guess he wasn't dead.

This is a bad film. It could have been a lot better. The name was funny but the film didn't live up to it.

There wasn't a lot of good acting. The dialogue was terrible in parts.The story didn't even make a lot of sense and it just felt silly. I don't mind low budget but this was just too bad. I couldn't watch it again. I will give it a 3/10.