Ah, the '80s! A time of hair bands and their ludicrous MTV videos filled with spandex-clad band members and skimpily clad bimbos. Kiss: Exposed returns us to that forgettable era, as Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons show how to desperately try to remain cock rock's elder statesmen. This 1987 compilation serves up several now-hilarious video clips from Kiss's '80s "unmasked" period, including "Tears Are Falling," "Heaven's on Fire," "Lick It Up," and "I Love It Loud." (Count the fires burning in these classic video relics of days gone by!) Also on hand are Stanley and Simmons themselves, looking properly embarrassed as they act out rock's biggest fantasy: lounging by the pool with a bevy of (mostly) bare beauties. The saving grace is the generous selection of vintage live performances: hearing the band do "Strutter," "Detroit Rock City," "Ladies Room," and "Deuce" in its late-'70s prime is worth wading through the outdated '80s-style power pop... if you're a real Kiss fan, of course.
Directed by Claude Borenzweig
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Cast
Gene Simmons
Self
Paul Stanley
Self
Eric Carr
Self
Bruce Kulick
Self
Mark Blankfield
Interviewer
Blondi
Christine
Len Epand
Record Exec Unconscious in Pool
Cynthia Brimhall
The Ladies
Lorraina Cazarez
The Ladies
Kymberly Herrin
The Ladies
Christine Lunde
The Ladies
Kym Malin
The Ladies
Lucy Mokrane
The Ladies
Candie Evans
The Ladies
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