Hard to Die
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| Directed by | Jim Wynorski |
| Produced by | Jim Wynorski |
| Written by |
Mark Thomas McGee James B. Rogers |
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Gail Harris Melissa Moore Bridget Carney Karen Mayo-Chandler Peter Spellos Debra Dare |
| Music by | Chuck Cirino |
| Cinematography | Jürgen Baum |
| Distributed by | New Horizons Home Video |
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77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Hard to Die (also known as Tower of Terror) is a 1990 American action comedy film written by Mark Thomas McGee and James B. Rogers, directed by Jim Wynorski, and starring Gail Harris and Melissa Moore. The film features a similar storyline and many of the same actresses from Wynorski's previous film Sorority House Massacre II: Nighty Nightmare.
The film was released as a direct-to-video film in 1990, but it was released theatrically in 1992 under the name Tower of Terror and received an NC-17 rating.
A group of women are about to experience the most horrifying night of their lives - trapped in a deserted skyscraper, with a crazed killer at their heels. Soon their innocent overtime duty becomes an action-filled evening of terror and suspense - yet they choose to defy the odds and fight back... trading fear for firepower in a high stakes, all-out fight to the death.
Jim Wynorski had made a film for Roger Corman called Sorority House Massacre II. Corman wanted Wynorski to remake it, using the same story and cast. According to Mark Thomas McGee, who was hired to work on the script:
Only this time, instead of having the buxom young ladies running around in their undies in a sorority house, pursued by a mad killer, Roger wanted to make use of the sets that had just been built for Corporate Affairs (1990), which as I recall consisted of one large reception area and a few suites. This change in locale presented Jim and I with a problem—how to get the women out of their clothes and into their underwear. (Try to imagine someone like David Lean or William Wyler wrestling with a dilemma like this.) Not that women would ever run around in their under- wear regardless of the location, but it was a little easier to swallow when they were in a sorority house. I asked Jim if it would be too much of a problem to redress the reception area to make it seem like we’re on different levels of a high rise instead of a single level office. Jim liked that idea because it opened up all sorts of possibilities for us. It not only gave the ladies more room to run and hide from the killer, it also meant (and this was the genius of the stroke) that they could discover a lingerie company on another level. The sequence where these ladies become so excited when they discover these frilly and sexy undergarments (and just can’t wait to try them on) is as ridiculous and infantile as anything you can imagine. But half-naked women is just about all that a film like this has to offer.
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