Death Spa (1988)

Director
Michael Fischa

Main cast
William Bumiller; Brenda Bakke; Shari Shattuck; Ken Foree; Merritt Butrick

Genres
Horror

Description
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.


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