Actress Review:

The first time I spotted Michelle was when she was credited as Michelle McLellan in Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. I rented it because Leatherface starred in it and hoped for it to be as intense as Texas Chainsaw Massacre but was I ever wrong. It was a goofy tongue in cheek horror flick but Michelle was very menacing with her chainsaw hacking up her client since she played a chainsaw prostitute named Mercedes.

Most of the films I rented with her she ussually starred with her scream queen friend Linnea Quigley. The two of them seemed to work well together nevertheless even if most of the films were terrible and badly acted and directed.

Michelle Medvitz was born on October 1, 1958 in Montebello, California. Her father is Czechoslovakian and her mother is Mexican.

In 1977 she was married for only a year to Ken Bauer. Then she took up modelling in Xrated magazines and in 1981 she was nominated as Penthouse Pet of the Month on July of 1981. During that same year she worked in pornography crediting herself as Pia Snow. However, she quickly left the business to try and pursue work in mainstream films and was luckily enough not to be categorised as a porn star unlike Traci Lords and Ginger Lynn Allen.

However, cause she did work in the porn industry Michelle was often typecast in direct-to-video exploitation films and often doing full frontal nudity for a while.

Michelle appeared in a horror documentary with horror icon Cameron Mitchell titled Terror on Tape in 1985 which helped her a bit to work in the horror film industry as she played a lustful type character in the film.

Michelle also had minor roles in films like The Man Who Wasn't There, Monaco Forever, Roller Blade, Cavegirl, Tomboy, Screen Test and Reform School Girls.

Michelle then got her big break in 1986 by winning a lead role in Fred Olen Ray's flick The Tomb playing an evil vampiress type of Egyptian named Nefratis. Her voice acting was overdubbed as well as the film being badly acted and plotted but she received alot of exposure and a magaine rated it as the most rented direct-to-video flick.

Also, Michelle remarried to someone named Don McClellan as she used that last name for a while for her future film work. They both shared 1 child named Whitney born in 1988.

Still Michelle still pursued her filmwork by appearing in more of Olen Ray's horror and non-horror films. She then auditioned for director David DeCoteau who was known for his cheesy horror monster flick Creepozoids which successfully had a small theatrical release in the fall of 1987. DeCoteau cast her in his spoof called the Nightmare Sisters which went dirtect-to-video of that same year but was only paid a salary of 400 dollars. However, Michelle got to work with Linnea Quigley and Brinke Stevens in the film as they were both top low budget scream queens and soon Michelle would be on the same scream queen bill with them too.

All of them worked with DeCoteau again in the horror parody titled Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl O Rama which she played a sorority pledge named Lisa. Although most critics bombed it many fans that enjoyed trashy horror flicks adored it and the film did receive a limited theatrical release which Michelle had a chance for viewers in selected areas to see her play a main role on the big screen.

Then she worked again with Fred Olen Ray as he also cast Linnea for the first time in a slasher flick titled Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. This made Michelle a top scream queen as she plays a menacing chainsaw prostitute named Mercedes who hacks up her clients with a chainsaw and the film became a cult favourite to Fred Olen Ray fans.

Michelle worked steadily with David DeCoteau and Fred Olen Ray for their projects like Spirits, Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge and Blonde Heaven.

She also worked in other horror films such as Terror Night and Demonwarp.

With all this to her credit she appeared in three horror documentaries in the early 90's that focused on her horror films titled Scream Queen Hot Tub Party (Hosted by Brinke Stevens), Invasion of the Scream Queens and Chiller Theatre Expo Video Volume 1.

However, during that same year her marriage to Don McClellan dissolved but her career in exploited horror films still shined on.

In the late 90's Michelle travelled to Spain to star in two horror films down there titled Marie Cookie and the Killer Tarantula and Lust for Frankenstein. Then during the millenium she appeared in one last Fred Olen Ray flick titled Tomb of the Werewolf. She recently announced that she has retired from acting but you never know if she'll change her mind with all the fans ouit there that enjoy her movies.

Terror on Tape 1985. This was a documentary on close to obscure terrible horror films showing clips on 'Blood Feast', '2000 Maniacs', 'Blood Tide', 'Vampire Hookers', 'Return of the Aliens Deadly Spawn', 'City of the Walking Dead' and many more dull, poorly made and gross out flicks as the documentary sets in a video store on Halloween as the people involved play characters in it. Horror film veteran Cameron Mitchell hosts the show as he plays a video store clerk and when a customer comes in they ask him what a good movie to watch and he introduces them . Michelle Bauer plays the last customer walking into a video store playing a seductive goddess type in a cape and satin clothing. She is unsatified with horror films out there and asks the clerk if he has a movie in his store that will thrill and scare her so he shows her many clips of other gross out movies that we unfortunately are tortured to watch as well. The scenes with Cameron Mitchell and the others at the store is entertaining to watch but the clips of those nearly obsucre horror films are just plain stupid and pointless and I was surprised to find out how old these films were which I couldn't understand that they were actually released. Although I never found Michelle a true talent I did enjoy her performance in this one as it seemed to really suits the quality of the film itself. This would help boost her career as a scream queen in the low budget film industry with flicks mainly directed by Fred Olen Ray and David DeCoteau.

Roller Blade 1985. One of Michelle's first b-films films after leaving the porn industry. Her role is small with just one scene in it and she is full nude in roller skates as she is apparently a new creation for a warrior. When UI watched the first bit of the opening I knew I was in for a made for video Z grade awful film and boy was I ever right. I nearly threw up watching it. Awful comedy ripoff of other futuristic sci-fi type flicks of good and bad battling in roller blades. Good thing that Michelle wasn't well remembered for this one else she would've remained a vuirtual unknown like the rest of the cast from this movie.

Screen Test 1985. Michelle was only in three small scenes throughout the film and nude in all but one. First she's a stripper at a bar, then one person fantasises her being in bed with him and then at the end she's a ninja. Of course the plot is all about a bunch of sex crazed guys posing as pornographers getting women to undress for them at an audition claiming that they work in the porn film induiustry and all this leads them into all sorts of trouble with mobsters etc. Although this direct-to-video comedy was a bad film with virtual unknowns I quite got a kick out if it.

Reform School Girls 1986. I loved this film as it is totally 80's with cheese. The film was a parody of girls prisons. Michelle Bauer is uncredited in this one as she was just an extra but she is well noticed in a shower scene. The camera pans right on her taking a shower so if you blink once you won't miss her. I enjoyed the perfromances of former Andy Warhol film star Pat Ast as the evil jail matron Edna (Which her role is similar to her role as the nasty school teacher in Motley Crue's video "Smoking in the Boys Room." I also enjoyed former Plamastics punk rocker Wendy O Williams role as Charlie who also performed her music in the film. Both of these people are no longer with us sadly.

The Tomb 1986. This was Michelle's first lead in a real horror film. She then became a favourite to director Fred Olen Ray for his other projects. The film gave Michelle alot of exposure but her voice was overdubbed which made her acting look bad along with the rest of the cast. Michelle played a vampire type immortal Egyptian princess named Nefratis whom is awakened and realises that her tomb was stolen and casts evil spells on people that sold her belongings to archeologists using one person to help her with her evil deeds down in the States. Although this film was exploited Michelle doesn't perform nude in it but has a see through blouse. I enjoyed the cheesy 80's soundtrack in this one and apparently it was considered to be the most watched direct-to-video flick.

Nightmare Sisters 1987. Another director who used Michelle in many of his other films named David DeCoteau. Michelle didn't get a great salary for this one but she didn't do too bad and presented herself well in it. This one waas a spoof on those exploited scream queen exorcist type flicks. Not at all a horror just a plain dark comedy. Also Michelle got to work with two othwer scream queens which later she would be reigned in the same vein as them named Linnea Quigley and Brinke Stevens. Good make up effects were used on all three of them as they were playing sorority nerds abnd they all looked totally different. Michelle's character was overweight. Then they summon up a spirit and the spirit turns them into beautiful but deadly lustful babes. I laughed my ass off watching this on New Years Eve 1998. Especially the scenes where the three of them all take a bath together. I will also remember Michelle dressed up as Jane from Tarzan trying to seduce a college bully and then killing him.

Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 1988. By the same makers of 'Nightmare Sisters' comes this flick so again Michelle is working with DeCoteau and I believe she got a bigger salary and again worked with Brinke and Linnea. But this time Michelle plays a sorority pledge with Brinke. The film was still in post-production when 'Nightmare Sisters' came out. Yes this too was a spoof on horror flicks but was also categorised as a horror film. Well Michelle and Brinke's characters are whacked in the butt by a paddle and then are sprayed by whipped cream by three sorority sisters. Then Michelle and Brinke shower it off but have to do one last thing before joining the sorority which is to steal a bowling trophy at a bowling centre in a mall. They are there with some frat nerds and accidentally release a demonic Imp while stealing the trophy. The Imp grants them wishes each and one of them has a crush on Michelle's character so Michelle tries to seduce him in a changing room. But everyone else realises that their wishes are only to be fake and possesses the sorority sisters to kill the nerds and the pledges. Linnea is there robbing the place but turns out to be a hero in the end with the head nerd Calvin (Andras Jones). According to DeCoteau this film cost $250,000 to make and it received a limited theatrical release so viewewrs in certain countries got to see Michelle on the big screen. I had fun watching it but I admit it was non scary and was a golden turkey.

Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers 1988. I read in the video Movie Guide that Leatherface was also in this one I was excited about it hoping it was frightening too. But then I rented it and found it so lame. However, this was the first movie I saw Michelle in and then I found out that this was the one that made her a scream queen. Michelle played a chauinsaw prostitute named Mercedes and I must admit during her first scene that she was quite menacing with her chainsaw and hacking up her client. Mercedes was a beautiful but dangerous and evil woman. Their pimp was played by Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen of course) and it also starred again with her scream queen friend Linnea Quigley as an ex-chainsaw prostitute helping a detective played by b-film scream king Jay Richardson out by tracking all the chainsaw prostitutes down at their cult ceremony. Linnea disguises herself as a chainsaw prostitute and has a chainsaw battle with Michelle. Michelle and Linnea had to train themselves when they performed a chainsaw dance at the cult ceremony which was very dangerous as they did their own stunts. This one was a favourite to Fred Olen Ray fans.

Death Row Diner 1988. God was this one was terrible. I had to crank up the volume on my TV to hear this shot on video trash. It was lower than a Z-grade flick. Michelle plays the wife named Julia Wilcox-Weston of an obnoxious B-filmmaker named Bill Weston (Played by Jay Richardson) who makes a film of Julia's uncle who was once a mass murderer that was sentenced to death. The ghost of her uncle ends up slaughtering the cast & crew members. At first this film seemes to be a horror but at the end it's just a plain stupid dark comedy with close to 'Toxic Avenger' type humour. Michelle's starring film 'Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers' was mentioned a couple times in the film.

The Jigsaw Murders 1988. I saw this thriller listed on the imdb.com and saw that Michelle had a part in it with Brinke Stevens. I rented it at a video store. It was bigger than a z-grade film but the story stunk! Michelle didn't really have a part in it. Her character was a missing person who was killed and the killer turns on his projector and watches pornographic pictures of her. That is her scene! Nothing more I have to say about this film but to avoid it!

Beverly Hills Vamp 1988. A silly Fred Olen Ray comedy which is a spoof on all of his horror films. We have Jay Richardson playing a detective who tries to slay some vampires and we got the nerd Eddie Deezen as his sidekick. Michelle Bauer plays a lusty vampiress hooker named Kristina. Not such a terrible film. Check it out. I don't remember it much but it was a fun little flick.

Demonwarp 1988. This was one of my favourite horror films with Michelle in it. For some reason she wasn't credited in the opening credits as she had a very good supporting role in it. The film was about an alien monster who lands on Earth and kidnaps people and then turns most of them into zombies. Michelle plays a victim this time named Betsy as she goes out sanbathing with her friend topless out in a forest. She then encounters her friend being slaughtered by the monster and she certainly does use her lung power in this one. She runs away topless and some people that are trying to hunt this monster down cause it took one of their friends tries to help Betsy. But before it's too late Betsy is kidnapped by the monster and her heart is torn out. Michelle must've felt a little embarrassed while watching the film of her running away topless but again she has done this so many times. Good effects in this one and it had a couple of familiar faces like George Kennedy. She is also featured on the video box cover.

Deadly Embrace 1989. A terrible soft core porn dud with a touch of daytime soap as Michelle has a supporting role playing a female spirit of sex. What kind of a role is it? Well I'll tell you the story. A college student named Chris Thompson (Played by Ken Abraham) who helps a lady named Charlotte (Played by sex pot Ty Randolph) out with her house while her husband Stewart (Played by b-film legend Jan Michael Vincent) is busy at work but wants to get rid of his wife for good. Well Chris and Charlotte fool around with one another and then Chris' girlfriend visits and fornicates with him while staying there. Charlotte video tapes them having sex. Well how Michelle was involved was while Chris was trying to sleep, he sexually fantasises his girlfriend naked (PLayed by Linnea Quigley) as well as fantasising Michelle's character as she performs nude as well. Most of the plot in this film is the sex scenes and the nudity. David DeCoteau credited himself as Ellen Cabot for this one.

Assault of the Party Nerds 1989. A sleazy crappy film produced, written, directed and starring Richard Gabai. Michelle plays a sleazy popular bimbo named Muffin along with her friend Linnea Quigley who plays Bambi. They fool around with their stuck up college boyfriends (The camera really pans in on Michelle's breasts) until they catch them fooling around together. Then they help out some college nerds throw a wild party. This film was badly dubbed along with the acting, directing and the storyline. Gabai tried to clone 'Revenge of the Nerds' but in a terrible exploited and sleazy way. Believe it or not a sequel came out and both Michelle and Linnea both reprised their roles and the same with Gabai. Both of them a direct-to-video releases.

Dr. Alien 1989. Michelle only had a cameo in this film playing a Coed student. In her first scene she is doing excersises with her class. Then she spots a nerd named Wesley in the chaniging room played by Billy Jacoby who has a hard time getting a girl to go out with him and a substitute teacher who is an alien played by cult icon Judy Landers that gives him a tracking device on his head that makes girls sexually aroused towards him. Wesley has a some sort of beam on the top of his head and when Michelle spots it she gets sexually aroused along with another Coed played by Karen Russell. They take their tops off and tries to jump his bones. Although this was noted to be a bad film and probably never made it to theatre's I liked this film the best out of all of David DeCoteau's flicks. There's also a scene where there is Jacoby and his film family having breakfast and there's a cereal box of 'Creepozoids' plus some of the family's members watching the movie on TV. Plus Jacoby's younger brother Bobby plays his younger brother in the film as well.

Virgin High 1991. By the same makers as 'Assault of the Party Nerds' but nowhere near as bad but still pretty bad nonetheless. A girl gets in trouble with her parents for allegedly fooling around with her boyfriend, and they send her to a catholic girls' high school. Michelle Bauer plays a school teacher named Miss Bush but I don't remember her role in it but it wasn't one of the lead roles. Cast also features Burt Ward who was famous for his role Robin in the 60's cult TV series spoof 'Batman'. There's also a scene where there's a movie poster of 'Assault of the Party Nerds' hanging on a wall.

Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge 1991. David DeCoteau took the bull by the horns on dorecting this one and it's the best out of all the films. He had many familiar faces in it like Richard Lynch, Ian Abercrombie, Walter Gottel and Sarah Douglas. Michelle only had a 2 scene cameo in this one as a prositute name Lili. She is topless with some other women in her first scene by giving Walter Gottell's character a bath. Then her next scene she fornicates with him. It was a well remembered scene but unlike most of DeCoteau's films this was not noted to be an exploited film by any means. This was his best effort at directing a film. Of course the Puppet Master is a man named Andre Toulon who creates these living puppets to kill his enemies. This film was a prequel to how he created these puppets and was a good guy in it before he turned evil in the first flick taking place during WWII. The music is excellent in it and it was used in almost all of the Puppet Master films.

Spirits 1992. My favourite Michelle Bauer horror film as well as my favourite Fred Olen Ray film. Brinke Stevens was the main star in the film along with Chips hearthrob Erik Estrada and Carol Lynley. Michelle has a 5 minute supporting role in the film as a spirit of a lustful but evil Nun named Sister Mary. She tries to seduce the lead actor played by former Chips TV heartthrob Erik Estrada and is full nude. She is only in that scene but it's a good scene. This is Fred Olen Ray's best effort no doubt about it and I also found it to be one of Brinke's and Michelle's best performances about a priest and ESP experts investigating a haunted house. Michelle was surprisingly uncredited in this one as the producers probably forgot to credit her but she was credited on the video box cover of this movie.

Demented 1994. Another awful shot on video flick. Michelle's character is a sleazy one who has an affair with a doctor at a hospital there. She fornicates with him and then tells him she is pregnant. Then she talks to the man's wife (Played by Angela Bowie) about an abortion and other stuff to discuss with the affair. Meanwhile, in a seemingly peaceful boarding house on a quiet suburban street, an unspeakable horror stalks the innocent residents and sends them to their graves carrying its blood-thirsty secret. The doctor goes to this boarding house and realises that he has to make a deadly decision. Based in part (reputedly) on a true story but I think we all know better after seeing this totally make believe gory flick.

Vampire Vixens from Venus 1995. My god, another extremely terrible made for video flick. I read in the movie guide that this was a lame horror-sex comedy plus it was rated a turkey. Well this is a turkey and it was lame but this was not at all a horror film just a dumb comedy. A story of three Venusians landing on Earth and transforming themselves into sexy and sleazy women in order to suck the life out of unsuspecting males. Michelle Bauer had a supporting role named Shampay who has a romance with the lead actor Leon Head who plays a detective named Oakenshield who bumbles his way into the investigation of the dessicated bodies in order to impress her and his new partner Jack. The effects are terrible along with a terrible flick. Lots of skin but that's all.

Red Lips 1995. I rented this one along with Demented. These two were at a place titled Tom's Video in the R Rated section. Let me tell you the budget doesn't get any better in this one. It was shot on a camcorder with no boom mic or anything. It was made on the same budget as a home video camera. I'm not kidding. I wasted my money on renting it as the R Rated video's are more expensive. Death Row Diner was in that category too. My guess is not too many people rented these so they put it in that section. Michelle's character in this one is a lesbian named Lisa who breaks up with her overweight lover and then meets up with a vampiress named Caroline who escaped from a science lab. Caroline looks like she hasn't eaten in weeks and Lisa takes her to a food court. Later on they fall in love and Lisa discovers Caroline's dark secret. Lisa tries to protect her still. Michelle did quite well for what this was made on and the filmmakers or I should say camcordermakers should be greatful they found her and she would accept the part in this film but I highly doubt that she got paid much if she ever got paid at all to do this. I am even surprised that this was available to rent which is a waste of money. C'mon Michelle you can do better than this.

Bikini Drive In 1995. I bought this comedy at an Army & Navy Thrift Store for 6.99 on DVD since I knew Michelle had a part in it and it looked like a mvoie by it's title that' it's so bad it's good and I'm right. It's very enjoyable for a made for video release by Fred Olen Ray. The story centers around a young beautiful woman named Kim Taylor (Ashley Rhey) who sunbathes with her friend topless until a attorney approaches her and tells her that she has inherited her dead grandfathers drive in theatre. However, a greedy businessman named J.B. Winston (David F. Friedman) wants to tear it down and build a shopping mall. Not only that, Kim needs to raise $25,000 over one weekend or the bank will take the property from her. J.B.'s son named Brian (Richard Gabai) falls romantically in love with Kim so he tries to help her raise the money she owes to keep the theatre alive. They look at old movies and one of them is 'Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers' (A cult fave to horror fans of Bauer's and made by Fred Olen Ray too). They aren't too successful at raising money so this is where Michelle Bauer steps in. She plays a famous scream queen named Dyanne Lynn and Brian calls her up to ask her to come and support it since they will be showing her movie Sorority Sister Slaughterhouse (Probably a joke to her role as Babs in 'Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama'). They tell her the president will be there in order for her to come down and she accepts. During this time she takes her top off and swims in her pool at her mansion and then gets a rubdown by her servant. She sounds very lustful with her words. Then their drive in is packed with people and Bauer is in her limo waiting for the president to arrive. She then is robbed by a thief in her limo and then is tied up and locked in the back trunk of her limo. After the drive in is kept alive an d Bauer is rescued at the end of the film. Also, playing on the screen when she is in her limo looks like the film she had a good supporting role in titled 'Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold' cause I am sure Michelle was on that screen although I haven't seen the film but it was a Fred Olen Ray flick. This film had gratitious nudity and tons of sex scenes that it can easily be called a blue movie with fun and a cheesy storyline and a neat cheesy soundtrack too. If you enjoy 'Fast Food' but with plenty of nudity you'll enjoy this one. Michelle had an effective supporting role in this film and it was enjoyable too. Plus we have a nice performance by Conrad Brooks too. This is my second favourite Fred Olen Ray flick along with 'Spirits' which Bauer had an uncrediterd special appearance in with Erik Estrada.

Lust for Frankenstein 1998. Michelle travelled to Spain to star in this sleazy lesbian female version of Mary Shelley's classic. Michelle is pure naked all the way through the film as the Goddess, a creation by a lesbian who is confused by her sexuality named Moira Frankenstein (Lina Romay) and is haunted by a macabre ghost of her long dead father (Carlos Subterfuge) who is an infamous reanimator which he instructed Moira to resuscitate his immortal female creation with hopes of clearing the Frankenstein name. The Goddess is always sexually active and will stop at nothing to be Moira's mistress even if it means killing the people that Moira sleeps with. Michelle also has her voice overdubbed making it sound robotic like. This indie was made on a film budget but the plot mostly focuses on the full frontal nudity and the sex scenes before the murders happen and is definetely a blue film. It was almost taken in the same direction like many of Andy Warhol's films such as 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula'.