Death Spa (1988) on Netflix
Michael Evans owns a Los Angeles health spa where his girlfriend Laura Danvers is nearly killed in the sauna and other members are murdered. His wife Catherine killed herself the year before.
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Plot summary
At the Starbody Health Spa in Los Angeles, owner Michael Evans runs the club with a state-of-the-art computer system that controls its workout machines, and Catherine's twin brother David manages it. After closing hours, Michael's girlfriend Laura Danvers is trapped inside the sauna as it fills with chlorine gas, and Michael rushes to the hospital. Sergeant Stone and Lt. Fletcher of the Los Angeles police arrive to investigate. Loose bolts on the pool's diving board nearly injure a patron, Darla. A weightlifting machine then malfunctions and tears Robert apart. Another patron, Marci Hewitt, is speared in the locker room. Michael brings Laura, her eyes still bandaged, back to the club.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Death Spa (1988)
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- Karyn Parsons made her screen debut in Death Spa, and an NBC executive seeing the film on late-night cable later got her an audition for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
- The exterior of the Starbodies Health Spa that opens the film was shot in a strip mall on the south 8100 block of Sunset Blvd.; the strip mall and the 1960 Lytton Savings Bank Building, later a Chase Bank, were demolished in mid-2021.
- Director Michael Fischa said the film's premise came from the Los Angeles health-club craze: clubs opened like mushrooms and closed so fast that he decided to put a ghost in one.
