Showgirls (Region Free) Paul Schrader Katy Manning

Katy Manning

otherworldly and terrifying score

Mario Bava directs

a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school

and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo (Pierrot le fou) and Jean Seberg (Bonjour tristesse)

Showgirls (Region Free) Paul Schrader Katy ManningThere are films that merely tiptoe into the world of the erotic and then there is Showgirls. Ridiculed and reviled on release, arguably responsible for derailing the Hollywood career of its star Elizabeth Berkley but more recently re examined as a satirical inversion of the American dream into a glitzy nightmare. Small town girl Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) is determined to make it as feature dancer in the bitch eat bitch, sex soaked world of the