Stripped to Kill is a 1987 American erotic thriller/sexploitation film directed by Katt Shea and starring Greg Evigan, Kay Lenz and Norman Fell.

[1] Its plot follows a female Los Angeles police detective who goes undercover posing as a stripper to investigate a series of slayings connected to a strip club near Skid Row.

Their investigation leads to Cody posing undercover as a stripper at Rock Bottom, the club where the murdered woman was employed.

Despite not being much of a dancer, Cody manages to win an amateur night, after which the club's owner, Ray, offers her a job.

Meanwhile, another one of the dancers, Cinnamon, who's been let go by Ray due to her being addicted to pills, is strangled to death by the assailant with a metal cord.

Roxanne reveals herself to be Eric, dressed in drag; he has been posing and performing as his dead sister at the club, wearing fake latex breasts.

The film was inspired by a visit Katt Shea and her husband and writing partner Andy Ruben made to a strip club.

[5] Kay Lenz complained publicly about the film's editing and "exploitative" ad campaign aimed at the print media.

The Los Angeles Times said the film "fulfills its sex and violence quota-actually, it's fairly tame in these departments-but also has some style and substance as well".