EDITOR’S NOTE: Body Waves was on USA Up All Night on January 18 and September 26, 1997.

Body Waves has the same poster — close, I guess — to Beach Balls. They are not the same movie.

Director P.J. Pesce had Scorsese and De Palma for teachers and this was his first film. He’d go on to make From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter, Sniper 2, Smokin’ Aces 2, Lost Boys: The Tribe and a lot of TV. This was co-written with Bo Zenga, who wrote Soul Plane and directed and wrote Stan Helsing.

Rick Matthews (Bill Calvert) is inheriting. his father’s (Dick Miller) hemorrhoid cream company, as long as he makes some money. He and his friends, Dooner (Jim Wise), Squirrely (Michael McDonald), Joe (John Crane) and Larry (Marc Grapey) end up inventing a cream that makes people want to have sex. I mean, maybe women want to have sex. Dudes never have issues with that.

Rick also has a girlfriend, Stacy (Leah Lail), who is dealing with Himmel (Larry Linville), a right-wing commentator out to take down her radio station and use it to spread his message.

IMDB BS: “Sherrie Rose said producer Roger Corman tried to pressure her into having her shirt get accidentally ripped off and exposing her breasts during the pool table scene. She argued against it, saying it made no sense, and he finally backed down.”

Actually, I totally believe that. At least he didn’t ask her to be sexually attacked by a worm. Corman would use her in other projects, including as Professor Ursula Undershaft/Aftershock in the Black Scorpion movies and TV show.

You can watch this on YouTube.