Cutting the fatal fitness horrific work with “SLASHERCISE”

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In the morning of 90 degrees recently, dozens or so, two pairs of ages and sizes, some wearing a late and drain leg heating, standing outside the front of a pink pink store.

They are about to fight for their lives and test their endurance during an unparalleled hour exercise. While jumping, kicking and stabilizing, threatening monsters and serial killers (Hellraiser “, Freddy Krueger from” A Nightmare on Elm Street “)) They appear behind them, surrounded by a giant video screen.

Will they survive Slashercise?

Vanessa Decker, the center, teach “Slashercise” in her studio.

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The signing category in the new exercise area is called Facial fitnessWhich is doubled as a gift store full of clothes and movie souvenirs, led by the co -owner Vanessa Decker. They shake the brands with a studio brand – some of them with straw designs in the blood, while others with ticks and skulls – because they show the movements that come to the scenes of iconic screams.

Decker says: “Horror films are a form of escape from adrenaline, as well as exercising,” when Decker was asked how the idea of terrorism and fitness became. “I don’t know, it only works!”

The pillars of horror adorn the walls of the goods in World Studio Killer Fitness.
Ama lea holds "Slashercise" A film made in its fity's murderous studio.
Vanessa Decker, Ama Lea and Nadia Teichmann Talk after "Slashercise" season.

Clockwise from the left: The pillars of horror decorate the walls of the goods in the world in world. Ama Lea bears the fake movie “Slashercise” that you made. Vanessa Decker, Ama Lea and Nadia Teichmann are spoken after the “Slashercise” category. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)

But it also takes the real physical matter. There are stabbing acts and fighting movements of your life while Decker throws the exciting pun, which makes a muffled laugh between the category between the hills and puffs.

There are also the pillars: plastic saw and fake knives, which may look like forkdish touches but help in training strength. Repeated movements, inspired by the old Jin Fonda and Richard Simans, and the burning of calories and tone muscles. After my first class, it was my arms, the thighs and calves composed for several days.

Killer Fitness was opened in May in the hope that the popularity of horror will be translated into the box office into this unique personal area. It provides 20 exercises per week (available on ClasspassIt hosts evening films shows with paintings and Q&S. Day and night shows are part of a larger nervous world that helped Decker become an online maker, and 133,000 followers collect. “Horror“ID on Instagram.

Killer Fitness Owners Vanessa Decker, Left, and Ama Lea.

Killer Fitness Owners Vanessa Decker, Left, and Ama Lea.

(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)

Decker and Ama Lea partner connected to “Slashback video“Technical Install 2017, which re -created an ancient video store environment in the Mystic Museum, which is a horror center in Burbank. Fill in real and re -imagined movies, and created Lea, created a fake movie entitled” Slashercise.

“Everything began with” Linnea Quigley’s horror exerciseandLea, who designed a piece in honoring the actress B ‘Underground Classic. “It was a screaming queen, but a video of her exercise was often just funny plays, such as exercising with zombies and things. We started talking about making a real exercise movie under the title of horror with Vanessa starring and experimenting-the concept was a tilted movie that has an actual routine between them.

A "Wet stay, bimbos!" Paste suspended over the water fountain.

A foolish sticker hanging over the water fountain, and emphasizes the spirit of humor in the studio.

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The movie “Slashersise”, which is 2024, includes a serial killer called “Meathead” (his head is literally a piece of beef). The routine is divided into the effects of low -budget, infection and sleeve, inspired by other horror movies with fitness themes such as “Death Spa”, “Body Melt” and “Killer Workout”.

The couple got a momentum of DVD tablets after appearing on the horror service filtering service. “The last drive WEth Joe Bob Briggs(The hosts make a veil) and the fans soon began to ask where they can experience Slashersise in a real way.

Last year, in Mids of the summer screamingAnd it is a famous Los Angeles Horror conference, who presented a experiment to conduct an experiment and a changing conversation for life with dark delicious dishes, the seller of the Bartank retail known as creeping holdings and comedy.

Del and Sue Howison was planning to close after three decades of work and offered to DIBS Lea and Decker (and the silent partner Kay Elyse) on the retail space for the concept of Campy Cardio.

andThe front after a year, the Killer Fitness is now a loud brick store and mortar with horror exercise experiences. “Horror Yoga” focuses on the reconciliation expansion, while “Fitness Ghouls” offers a low -effect practice.

Angel Strong, Nadia Teichmann and Aimee Torres take "Slashercise" Class in the fitness killer.

Angel Strong, Nadia Teichmann and Aimee Torres “Slashercise” takes in World STUDIO Killer Fitness.

(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)

“Terortwist”, which is a high -power dance exercise, looks like a strict rehearsal. The mashed tunes of Lady Gaga (“” ZombieBoy “) and want revenge (” Your tear with each other “) with the design of dances that strike blood from” Thiller “to Michael Jackson,” A small store of terror “, and” The Rocky Horror Pictore Show “, which is considered one of the scales in the schedule, but it returns to the partial.

“The deadly physical fitness is especially for me because it is comprehensive, and there is no rule, and it is just a group of people who have the horror obsession they mix in exercise,” says Roxy Rose, a makeup artist and tattoos that hesitates to Circleer. “This is the place I enjoy and stay away from daily life.”

“We are here for everyone and all kinds of body,” Leah, who also designs wearing a store exercise in a wide range of sizes. “This is very important for us. Of course, most people who come from horror lovers as well.”

But you don’t have to be obsessed with the frightening fare to suit it. Facial fitness is essentially to celebrate the culture of nostalgia and the community that relates to it. The movements such as the fierce “final girl” are mastered with effort and consistency. (All coaches are accredited by the American Exercise Council.)

Decker for fatal fitness is distinguished from a gym chain, which it calls bright and annoying. “The work can be arduous, so we just want to feel the invitation,” she says, adding that there are exercises of nature throughout Los Angeles, like yoga goats.

“So why not play a gym for horror lovers?”

Vanessa Decker stands with a pillar with a saw after teaching "Slashercise."

Vanessa Decker stands with a chanting pillar after teaching “Slashercise”.

(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)

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