Death Spa

Death Spa (1988)

You’ll sweat blood!

Michael's health club is beseiged with a series of terrible murders involving killer saunas and other grisly devices. Michael's wife killed herself a while before and her brother holds Michael responsible. Michael needs to stop the bloodshed before he loses all of his clients.

Date of release
1988-07-29
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (109)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Horror
Director
Michael Fischa

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $750K

Death Spa is a 1988 American supernatural slasher film directed by Michael Fischa and starring William Bumiller, Brenda Bakke, Merritt Butrick, Ken Foree, Karyn Parsons, Rosalind Cash, and Vanessa Bell Calloway. Its plot follows a series of mysterious deaths occurring in a high-tech Los Angeles health spa, resulting from the spirit of the owner's deceased wife, who possesses the club's intricate computer system.

Production

According to director Michael Fischa, "the health craze had blossomed in LA. [Health clubs] came up like mushrooms. So quickly that they went out of business. So we thought, basically, we turn it around and we have a ghost in our health club. That could be a fun scenario".

The location used for the health spa was previously a dance studio.

The exterior shot of Starbodies Health Spa that opens the film was shot in a strip mall on the south 8100 block of Sunset Blvd. The strip mall, as well as the historical Lytton Savings Bank Building from 1960 (later a Chase Bank) were demolished in mid-2021.

William Bumiller had previously worked as the manager of a health club prior to being cast in the lead role for this film.

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