The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher

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The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid RowSlasher woof! The Model Killer 1979 (R)

Voiced-over narration, canned music, and an unfathomable plot are but a few of this would-be fright fest's finer points. Uninhibited by any narrative connection, two terrors strike fear in the heart of Tinseltown. While a psycho photographer cruises L.A. taking pictures of models he subsequently strangles, a woman working in a bare-bums magazine store takes a stab (with a knife) at lowering the city's derelict population. There's a word for this sort of dribble, and it isn't versimilitude. Steckler used an alias (not surprisingly) for this one—Wolfgang Schmidt. 72m/C VHS . Pierre Agostino, Carolyn Brandt, Forrest Duke, Chuck Alford; D: Ray Dennis Steckler, Ray Dennis Steckler.

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