Get more information about The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher on TMDb.The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher Reviews & Ratings. Write review. Index. Unapologetically lowbrow sleaze, and pretty potent to boot, . Similar to the 5. Watch The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher. The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher released on 1979. Click Images To Enlarge. Warning some images contain nudity, be careful if viewing in school or work. Plot: A psychopath is posing as a photographer is taking photos. The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher Review. L'histoire du film est tr. Watch THE HOLLYWOOD STRANGLER MEETS THE SKID ROW SLASHER online now - the Exploitation film by director Ray Dennis Steckler. A depraved sex maniac posing as a nudie. DAUGHTER OF HORROR in its dialog- free. And strangle again.. Hollywood Strangler Meets The Skid Row Slasher, The (1979) Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler Media Blasters/Guilty Pleasures DVD. THE FILM As a fly on the wall peek. By and by, he becomes intrigued by a staunch female bookshop clerk who. With switchblade. L. A. The eventual collision of. Ingenious use of dingy backstreet locations is beneficial to the. An odd, absorbing and even touching low- budget stalk'n'slash meditation. Irritable, homicidal, rigidly moralistic photographer Pierre Agostino. That's until he meets the wacko sicko. The fact that. Pierre has a passion for pigeons and Brandt has this thing for jogging. Gee, ain't psychopathic misanthrope amour. Well, this exceptionally stinky, but strangely engaging and enthralling. Under legendary Grade Z movie maestro Ray Dennis. Steckler's typically slipshod (mis)direction, this choice cheesy chunk. Los Angeles milieu, the numerous murder set. Pierre. strangles a hot chick in a jacuzzi with her own bikini top is a real. Pierre to victim: ! But hey, who needs. The title alone. doesn't exactly promise a masterpiece with layers of subtext and. In fact, it doesn't exactly promise anything except for some. Not even grade- b, this is crap all the way. Its poorly. filmed, completely post- dubbed in the Doris Wishman fashion, and not. This makes it all the stranger. I can't exactly pin down its. I'll try. For one, this is a grimy film. It looks washed out, hungover, and beat. It has a garish and sleazy atmosphere, coupled with some great on. In many ways, it resembles the sleaziest dens of both. Hollywood and 4. 2nd Street at the time. For fans of vintage exploitation. Heaven. It resembles an era long gone. Quentin Tarantino. Also, this is a relentlessly downbeat and dark film. Ray Dennis. Steckler is interesting, because he seems to have gotten more. However, the darkness that. Ray Dennis Steckler was one of the most compelling. This is one of Ray Dennis. Steckler's best films, rivaling his classic cheapies from the sixties. A lot of people probably look at this one as a cheap slasher flick. I suppose. the slasher film fans found it disappointed because the slasher aspect. I. found it to be rather entrancing for some reason, maybe because of. The cinematography was great, the choice of locations was. Steckler! 7/1. 0. This' A good film but it has poor acting. There's two differentplots in this story that eventually falls into one story. Some dude kills a. None of it goes anywhere. Every death scene also looks. And yet. somehow someway, I didn't hate this completely. There's something about. Maybe it's the fact. This narration is completely stream of consciousness and. After he smothers some chick with a pillow. All the other. narration is 1. I also loved the absurdity of the book store scenes: personally. I've been drunk at a lot of different places, but getting hammered at. That was the party place in the 1. It also helps. the hilarity that the book store has about two dozen books, maximum. I could watch anything (ANYTHING) made with that kind of. I won't give examples on what anything may include. This. movie is really bad and boring, but it's so bad and boring that I. Save yourself that trouble and don't watch. It doesn't. matter if it wouldn't exactly have been up for any Oscars, it remains a. As one might guess, there's not a whole lot of story here. The. movie concerns two characters who we know are destined to come together. Pierre Agostino is The Hollywood Strangler, a. Yeah, we've. seen guys like him in movies like this before. Carolyn Brandt. Steckler's ex- wife and frequent collaborator, is the other character. It's only a matter of time before these two like. In the meantime, it's important to note that Steckler. And what a hoot that narration is, hilariously. The major point of interest with this. Hollywood Boulevard and its series of adult businesses - during a. That's really what makes it. Agostino's expressions and Brandt's *lack* of expressions. It comes complete with numerous breast shots. When they find out each other's true. Verdoux barely wins. One wonders how. it would have been handled by Chaplin. I suspect it might have been. Ray Steckler was nowhere near the Chaplin class of director and film. He is nearer Ed Wood, but Wood had that saving grace of having. Steckler was basically an opportunist. He. never could do a nude sequence of interest. He just could show sleazy. It was enough to attract an audience, but its not cinematic. Chaplin) or it's worst (Wood). The plot of this film is fairly simple: Johnny Click (that is his name). Peter Agostino. He has been married but the. He looks at. most of the women he meets as tramps and prostitutes, and since he is. Hollywood he does see many of them on the street corners. With a. better script and direction it could be the negative version of Julia. Roberts- Richard Gere's . But this is Stekler, and he. I will give him one. Hollywood are done well. Steckler made this film as a silent film with a shoulder held camera. And we see him do in all these. We never see any police investigation. Agostino. sees every victim as a . Actually we do sense he is really going. While his murders do make headlines he is sharing them with a second. Skidrow Slasher.* These are male derelicts. Again no police investigation is shown. But we are invited to. It is a pornography book store owner played. Steckler's real life wife Caroline Brandt. Apparently (we are never. I hate to give a schlockmeister like Steckler any real credit for. I keep wondering if he first got the idea of the. Zodiac murderer who operated in. California in the 1. Now neither is really pleasant looking, but both are. Slowly they get to know each other and start. They decide to go full scale into a deep. And just as it is coming to fruition they realize just. SPOILER: Briefly their growing fondness (I really can't consider it love) turns. Agostino strangling Brandt. Brandt plunges her knife repeatedly into Agostino's. She dies first, and he dies shortly after. Aside from the shock value of the murders (which frankly gets. I take. it that it found it's audience, as Steckler would later do a second. Agostino (playing the same role - hey didn't he die in this. Las Vegas). One can't pass this. For instance, Brandt's knife could have been used by Agostino on. But even with that it would have been a worthless bit. Really the best thing to say about such a. I recommend to the readers they. It is a low budget but I thought it was very. I bought it on DVD and it had an interview with. Carolyn Brandt who is also ex- Mrs. The interview was great. I really felt like I got my moneys worth. Pop some popcorn and set. I. did. I really thought this movie had a good atmosphere to it. You. have to be a fan of the independent ones to like this one.
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