Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven (2011)
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In the notorious 1995 flop Showgirls, there was a background stripper named Penny Slot. Most people forgot about her the moment the credits rolled. Rena Riffel did not.
16 years later, the actress who played Penny made a sequel about her. She wrote it, directed it, produced it, edited it, largely paid for it, and gave herself the lead.
SHOWGIRLS 2: PENNY'S FROM HEAVEN (2011) runs 145 minutes, cost about $30,000, and follows Penny out of Vegas and toward stardom on a low-rent TV dance show.
It is, by most conventional measures, a disaster. One-star reviews, scenes visibly shot at highway rest stops, a plot that wanders for two and a half hours. Yet it has the sincere, irrepressible strangeness of a Tommy Wiseau film.
Riffel had worked with David Lynch on Mulholland Drive, and she thanks him in the credits. Some contemporary critics now argue, without irony, that this film is a genuinely Lynchian object, a micro-budget digital fever dream.
At least one film writer, Peter Cox of The Lost Highway Hotel, pleads for a boutique label restoration, calling Showgirls 2 "a strange kind of masterpiece."
About the Film
The show is about to begin... Again!
- Directed By
- Rena Riffel
- Runtime
- 145 minutes
- Released
- November 8, 2011
- Certification
- NR
- Country
- United States of America
- Starring
- Rena Riffel, Glenn Plummer, Greg Travis, Dewey Weber, Peter Stickles
More Credits
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Language
- English
- Origin
- US
- Studios
- Rena Riffel Films, Liquid LYT Productions, Wild Eye Releasing
- Collection
- Showgirls Collection
- Written By
- Rena Riffel
- Produced By
- Josh Eisenstadt, Ford Austin, Rena Riffel
- Cinematography
- Charles Rose, Rick Stephens
- Music
- John Collins, Rick Whitfield, Kevin MacLeod
- Also Starring
- Shelley Michelle, Ford Austin, Paula LaBaredas, Hoyt Richards, Blanca Blanco
- Budget
- $30,000
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Hmmm, sounds intriguing!
A sequel only in title. Nobody fell for that
Joe Everett To be fair, it has a few of the same actors and characters. But yeah. I’m honestly surprised they were permitted to make this movie. Apparently, Riffel got around the rights issues by calling it a parody.
Anywhere But Hollywood a parody?! An unintentional one, I’m sure
Wasn’t there a competing sequel being made at the same time?
Tim Caldwell Verhoeven planned a sequel called Bimbos, which never happened. And I just learned there was also another unauthorized thing called Showgirls: Exposed.
I found this on dvd for $4. Worth every penny 😉
She kind of tried to do a Lynch/Mulholland Drive things with this one. (The actress appears in M.Drive as well).
It’s bizarre and does not work.
Well, I watched it. An interesting experience cough.