Lisa Niemi, born in 1956, is an American actress known for her role in Slam Dance (1987), a film that blends crime and suspense with a gritty edge. In this cult classic, she delivers a compelling performance that enhances the film's exploration of the darker side of human nature. Niemi's background as a dancer adds a unique physicality to her acting, making her presence felt in the intense narrative. Her connection to the world of cult cinema is further underscored by her marriage to Patrick Swayze, a figure synonymous with iconic roles in the genre.
Slam Dance
A married cartoonist named C. C. Drood becomes involved in the cover up of a political sex scandal after his lover, Yolanda Caldwell, a call girl, is found murdered. Drood has betrayed his wife Helen with the exotic Yolanda, who takes him to a club where the patrons slam dance, violently crashing into one another on the dance floor. Bobby Nye, a former lesbian lover of Yolanda's, hires a hit man named Buddy to do away with Drood, who is also hotly pursued by the police. Drood ultimately comes to believe that Bobby and Buddy are the ones responsible for Yolanda's death. A corrupt cop, Gilbert, is doing everything in his power to pin the whole thing on Drood, but a police colleague, Smiley, intervenes on the wanted man's behalf. Buddy is eventually overcome with guilt in his role in the killing of Yolanda, so he spares Drood's life and takes his own. To escape with his wife and his life, Drood tries to make Nye and the cops believe that Buddy's body is actually his.
