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Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs  The Hollywood Strangler Meets The Skid Row Slasher (1979) 
A seedy slice of weirdness from director Ray Dennis Steckler, who brought us such greats as 'The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies'.
Here we have two independent serial killers; The Hollywood Strangler, who feels compelled to strangle the models he photographs, and the Skid Row Slasher, a porno bookstore owner who deals out stabbings to the local wino population when not peddling her brand of smut.
The film concentrates more on our tormented strangler, who certainly has issues when it comes to the female sex, and aided by his inner monologue strangles and chokes his way through a surprising amount of models without being suspected nor apprehended.
Aside from he internal monologue of our Hollywood Strangler, the film is largely dialogue free focusing mainly on the seedy set-pieces and flowing from one act of killing to the next with the usually filler stuffed in to bulk out the run-time a little. All the killing is merely the build-up to the point where our two killers finally meet, and this leads to a particularly uninspiring end to what is a essentially a pretty uninspiring film.
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As awful as this film is, I have a strange soft spot for it. If that's the right phrase. It's shamelessly repetitive, just going from kill to bear breasted kill with no attempt at anything that might dignify it at even the most perfunctory genre trash pot boiling level... all with no synched sound! I mean, there's definitely worse around, but it teeters excitingly on the verge of non-film. I like how all the misogyny is sort of cancelled by the end, which features a feminist tramp killer? Did I make that up? It's been years since I saw it. Maybe I should get it out again? Maybe not. You did it for me! Cheers.