Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: MVD5930D
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 760137593096
- Street Date: 09/17/13
- PreBook Date: 08/13/13
- Label: Devil'S Den »
- Genre: Cult
- Run Time: 145 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2011
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: WORLD
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- Rena Riffel
- Glenn Plummer
- Peter Stickles
- Dewey Weber
- Shelley Michelle
- Hoyt Richards
- Director: Rena Riffel
- Producer: MYC Agnew
- Producer: Ford Austin
- Producer: Rena Riffel
- Producers: MYC Agnew
- Producers: Ford Austin
- Producers: Rena Riffel
Product Assets
Showgirls 2: Penny's From Heaven
The Show Is About To Begin... Again!
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It's Sunset Boulevard meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane meets Mommy Dearest... in a G-String! Las Vegas stripper Penny Slot (Rena Riffel) sets out on an adventure to become the star dancer on a TV series. With fame and fortune in her eyes, she tries to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but instead finds danger in a town more wicked than Sin City. There is a price to pay for success, sacrifices to be made at every imaginable level and it all comes down to one thing - How Bad Do You Want It? Find out in Rena Riffel's epic and outrageous homage to the Showgirls legacy.
Media
Bonus Materials
- Director's Commentary
- Behind The Scenes Featurette
- 'Hot Dog Scene' Remix
- Lost Footage Reel
Sales Points
- Multi-city theatrical run
- Online and print buzz/ articles, including Entertainment Weekly, LA Weekly
- Many returning cast members from Showgirls
- Follow-up to hugely popular cult film
- Extensive National Publicity and Marketing Campaigns
Press Quotes
While S2: PFH is not exactly a feminist statement (though that would make a swell pull-quote, wouldn't it? 'Not Exactly a Feminist Statement!'--The Village Voice), the act of Riffel making it was.
—Sherilyn Connelly, Village Voice
So Weird It's Weird: Showgirls 2 Doesn't Suck!
—Rich Juzwiak, Gawker.com
seventies porn production values, Showgirls 2 - Penny's From Heaven is a romp through a warped world of manipulative characters and cruel, competitive dancers.
—Pamela Chelin, LA Weekly
A daunting and swirling phantasmagoria of storylines, weird back-and-forths, and just as much bizarro character vacillation as its predecessor
—Witney Seibold , Crave Online
Riffel delivers a film with the ascetics, and most importantly heart, of John Waters' trash classics. In doing so she establishes herself as more than a cult star, but a filmmaker who is actually creating (not emulating) films that a devoted audience will
—MICHAEL BILINSKI , Examiner.com
One of the most exhaustively weird film experiences of last year
—The Cinefamily
A weird side trip into psychological and metaphysical horror along with commentaries on fame, the desire for success, and post-modern feminism to make this an ambitious and bizarrely successful spoof/homage, an auteur masterpiece of madness, mayhem, camp
—Firedoglake.com
Showgirls 2 goes to a manic superstar level all its own
—Alonso Duralde, Movies.com