Hard to Die (1990)
5/10
Hard to Die
3 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
You can consider Hard to Die either Tower of Terror or Sorority House Massacre III: Hard to Die. It's kinda sorta a remake of Sorority House Massacre II with some of the same cast and the same director, Jim Wynorski. He made that movie for Julie Corman. Now Roger wanted the same movie.

He also had sets from Corporate Affairs, which was set in an office building. In Mark Thomas McGee's Katzman, Nicholson and Corman - Shaping Hollywood's Future, he talked about the issues that the location created as he wrote the movie with James B. Rogers: "This change in locale presented Jim and I with a problem-how to get the women out of their clothes and into their underwear. Try to imagine someone like David Lean or William Wyler wrestling with a dilemma like this."

The trick that made the movie? The fact that it was set on different levels of a building. McGree added that this led to the knowledge that the characters "...could discover a lingerie company on another level. The sequence where these ladies become so excited when they discover these frilly and sexy undergarments (and just can't wait to try them on) is as ridiculous and infantile as anything you can imagine."

That's from the guy who wrote this.

This movie also uses footage from Slumber Party Massacre to have the driller killer possess janitor Orville Ketchum who just stares at the five ladies who work at a lingerie company in the tower. That's because the ladies broke the object housing the killer's spirit that Dr. Ed Newton (Forrest J. Ackerman) was planning on destroying.

Dawn (Gail Thackray, an early internet porn entrepreneur and the creator of Hustler's Barely Legal), Diana (Karen Mayo-Chandler), Jackie (Deborah Dutch), Tess (Melissa Moore) and Shayne (Bridget Carney) have to survive the night while wearing lingerie and carrying guns, which when combined with the title of this movie may lead one to believe that this was an Andy Sidaris film. Also, seeing as how it's really a Wynorski movie, it has cameos by Monique Gabrielle and Kelli Maroney. He used the name Arch Stanton here, which is the name on the grave with the gold hidden inside from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
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