Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers treats its lurid title as an open contract with the audience. A private eye framework gives structure to the collision of cult ritual, sexual display and power tool violence. The film's comedy comes from performing those ingredients with a straight enough face to keep the detective story moving. Watch how it borrows the gestures of noir while refusing noir's restraint; the investigative pose becomes another theatrical element in a deliberately excessive show.
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Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
1988 / VIEWING NOTES
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers treats its lurid title as an open contract with the audience.