My review was written in May 1989 after a Cannes Film Festival Market screening.
Competently executed but unexciting, "Posed for Murder" is a slasher thriller that might generate decent video sales on the basis of its attractive leading lady and exploitable genre content.
Charlotte Helmkamp, who posed for Playboy magazine using the moniker Charlotte Kemp, doesn't stray too far in her role here as a buxom model for Thrill magazine, trying to get a lead role in a horror picture called "Meat Cleavers from Mars".
A nut is stalking her, killing her friends and acquaintances one by one.
Prime suspects include ex-boyfriend Michael Merrings, just out of jail, and new boyfriend Carl Fury. Cop on the case is another hunk, Rick Gianasi.
Director Brian T. Jones enjoys the many in-jokes and knowing references here. Unfortunately, little suspense is generated, cast gives extremely bland (and boring) line readings and final-reel payoff is unconvincing. Casting of co-producer Carl Fury in the male lead smacks of a vanity production.
Helmkamp is definitely an eyeful, but needs to work long and hard on her acting. Bob Paone's lensing is pro.