Cheesy thriller (namely, Kraft Grated Parmesan-y), with lots of bare bodkins and bodies too: a mad slasher is targeting Times Square strippers. This drastically cuts into the business of two Mafia-connected talent agents, who both look like Latin pop singers. (A couple of operational details are credible, but the on-stage activities are oddly antiquated: a very decorous star stripper, and wildly zealous audiences.) One of the talent agents happens to be a former professional boxer, bedevilled by flashbacks of a fatal prizefight, and the slasher happens to be a martial-arts fanatic. Since the police do nothing but think up derogatives for "Italians," a showdown seems inevitable. Rocky Graziano vs. Bruce Lee. Any bets? Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Melanie Griffith; directed by Abel Ferrara. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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