While she probably remains best known as “Trash,” the naked grave-dancer turned naked punkette zombie in Return of the Living Dead, Linnea Quigley has carved out a long, noteworthy, and still active career in cheap horror films and videos. IMDB lists 135 acting credits, plus over 40 “as herself” appearances. One of the latter was the preposterous 1990 Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout, an insane piece of work which simultaneously parodied z-grade slasher flicks and those “workout” videos of the period that were really just blatant cheesecake (remember “20 Minute Workout”?), at the same time as actually BEING a z-grade slasher flick and a workout-as-cheesecake video. I’ll let the IMDB plot summary do the talking for a moment:

After a nice shower, Linnea does some warm-up stretches and then goes for a run. She encounters some flabby zombies who follow her back to the house, where she leads them in some poolside aerobic routines. Later she unwinds by inviting some girlfriends over for a slumber party and some exercise. When something goes bump in the house, her friends begin experiencing an attrition problem.

 

 
This has everything a Quigley fan could want—a totally gratuitous shower scene, poofy crimped hair, warmups in a mirrored halter, a cheeky and cheap nod to “Thriller,” totally non-scary zombies, Chekhov’s swimming pool, a slumber party complete with a de rigueur slumber party massacre, a severed head in a toilet bowl, and a Reagan-mask murder spree, all wrapped up in LOADS of cheesy, self-aware, self-deprecating humor. (“Just because you’re DEAD, do you think you can just let yourselves go?”)

Several scenes from the tape are online, but this condensed version posted by the folks at I-Mockery cuts out a lot of chaff—if you’re super keen to see the ten minutes of actual aerobics from the slumber party scene, click here, but I think it gets old kinda fast.
 

 
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