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Streets of Vengeance
USA 2016
produced by Angelica De Alba, Jason West (executive) for A & P Productions
directed by Paul Ragsdale, Angelica De Alba
starring Delawna McKinney, Anthony Iava To'omata, Paige LeNay, Daniel James Moody, Cassidy St. Hubbins, Flora E. Moon, Amanda Cox, Victoria Dementieva, Bryan Hurd, Ginger Lynn, Robert Holloway, Joshua Palafox, Jeremiah Crothers, Deanna Winch, Roc Inked, Krystal Shay, Jazmine C. Sanders, Joanna Angel, Alexis Amore, Sophie Dee (as Kirsty Hill), Justin Garza, Dylan C. Bargas, Tommy Fourre, Robert Fourre, Dylan Bowman, Uriel Rodriquez, Steven Vanderwall, Angela Mazzanti, James Wester, Kaytlyn Breanne, Randi Orrett, Krhys Daniels, Feral R.R. Tearle, Jake William, Jason Yonan, Mason Baiza, Martha Phillips, Eden Trevino
written by Paul Ragsdale, Angelica De Alba, music by Vestron Vulture, songs by London Lazers, Salacious Wizard Cult, Grind Theory, Kosta Varvatakis
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A mysterious killer called the "San Francisco Slasher" is
slaughtering the sex workers of town. At the same time a "men's
rights activist", Garret Sullivan (Daniel James Moody), is very
publicly promoting things like "slut-shaming" and blaming women
for being raped, basically trying to make rape culture socially
acceptable. And then there's Mila (Delawna McKinney), a porn actress who's
also a feminist and who at the height of her career wants to get out, so
her mentor and producer Ivan Dark (Bryan Hurd), while not happy to let her
go, is throwing her a farewell party. At this party, he drugs her and has
her kidnapped by Nathaniel, who wants to kill her live on webcam. But he
survives his attempt and beats him to death with a baseball bat before
collapsing on her way out. But fortunately for her, a reporter (Anthony
Iava To'omata) who's after her story finds her, takes her home with her,
nurses her back to health, and helps her find out who's behind her ordeal
- and he supports her when she and a few other porn girls go on a
vengeance trip to take out the patriarchal villains responsible for her
almost-demise for good - even if that might be too big a job for Mila and
company ... Basically, Streets of Vengeance is a loving
hommage to direct-to-video/-cable exploitation fare from the late 1980s
and early 90s, and films like Stripped
to Kill readily spring to mind, with a welcome feminist message to
come with it. And basically the film succeeds what it seems to have set
out to do ... and that's not only a good thing, as instead of distilling
the good of genre cinema of old, the film is content with being a copy
cat, so we get the bad with the good, as in a very flat script, wooden
performances, an annoying and impersonal synth-soundtrack, too much
gratuitous nudity instead of pushing the envelope, and a way too serious
approach to a slightly silly story. That is to say, if you're at all a
fan of yesteryear's exploitation cinema, you'll probably like that for all
its references, just don't expect it to reinvent movies in any sense of
the word.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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