Plot by Imdb:"15 year-old Molly is the best in her class in high school. Nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as prostitute "Angel" on Sunset Blvd. The well-organized separation of her two lives is shattered when two of her friends are slain by a necrophile serial killer. She's the only eye witness and becomes a target herself. The investigating Detective Andrews helps her, not only to survive, but also to query why she keeps on humiliating herself and to stop it."
What a weird movie ! Part sexploitation (without sex), part psycho-killer, part sociological movie, it's a rare glimpse on the Sunset Blvd inferno in the 80's. This would be a rather dull exploitation movie if it wasn't for its general weirdness: the false cow boy, the transvestite hooker, his "butchy" girlfriend, the schoolgirl hooker (our heroine), the necrophile psycho-killer...the only normal character is the "lone cop with a good heart". Of course, he's far from interesting. There was a nice sense of documentary in those 80's years, like in Maniac's movies or in Abel Ferrara's: a feeling that the images where taken directly from the streets, amongst the urban jungle of the night...Nice little movie, always funny to see that this concept Student / hooker was acceptable and treated quite seriously at the time, even in a B-movie, while today, puritans would kill us only to think about the idea of making a movie about it (while, in the streets, many underage turns to tricks).
Fun moment: a fight between the transvestite hooker and the psycho-killer, dressed as a Hare-Krishna !!!
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