Stripteaser . Weekly Alibi . 07-17-96

Stripteaser

DIRECTED BY: Dan Golden

REVIEWED: 07-17-96

At first glance, this looks like just another stripper movie from the Roger Corman factory, but in actuality, it's hands-down the greasiest, most twisted little movie in recent memory. The plot is as simple as you can get: A psychotic loser saunters into a strip club called "Zipper's Clown Palace" just before closing one night and proceeds to take everyone hostage. He spends the next few hours tormenting the hapless folks, forcing a weeping, stuttering nerd-boy to screw his favorite stripper ("For God's sake, it's not like you're goin' to the gas chamber, man!"), making a waitress (the unbelievably saucy Ann-Marie Holman) strip at gunpoint and asking trivia questions about the musical Gypsy. Meanwhile, a couple of sleazeball cops are shaking down various scumbags and slowly making their way to the Palace, where you just know somethin' serious is gonna go down. Director Dan Golden has churned out a bunch of T&A flicks for Corman, but 'Teaser is definitely his masterwork, thanks mostly to a terrific script by Duane Whitaker (Maynard the pawn shop guy in Pulp Fiction) and a pants-shittingly awesome performance by Rick Dean as the psycho. The rest of the cast (including R.A. Mihailoff, Nikki Fritz, and Corman staple Maria Ford) is cool, but this is Dean's show all the way, and he levels the place. A must-see. (New Horizons Home Video, 1996)

--Scott Phillips

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