Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)

User Rating:

3.3/10   

Director:

Fred Olen Ray

Writers:

Fred Olen Ray (screenplay) &
T.L. Lankford (screenplay)

Release Date:

March 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

They charge an arm and a leg!

Plot:

Jack Chandler is a private eye tracking down Samantha the runaway. In his travels, he comes across a...

Plot Keywords:

Chainsaw | Blood | Low Budget Film | Cult Favorite | Gore

Cast

Gunnar Hansen	...	The Stranger
Linnea Quigley	...	Samantha
Jay Richardson	...	Jack Chandler
Dawn Wildsmith	...	Lori
Michelle Bauer	...	Mercedes (as Michelle McLellan)
Esther Elise	...	Lisa (as Esther Alise)
Tricia Burns	...	Ilsa
Fox Harris	...	Hermie (as Jerry Fox)
Jimmy Williams	...	Bo
Michael Sonye	...	Jake The Bartender (as Dukey Flyswatter)
Dennis T. Mooney	...	Harrison (as Dennis Monney)
Jerry Miller	...	Murphy
Steve Welles	...	Lab Tech #1
Charles O'Hair	...	Lab Tech #2
Susie Wilson	...	Sally

Also Known As:

Hollywood Hookers (UK) (video title)

Runtime:

75 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (United)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M (cable rating) | Australia:R (original rating) | UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Camp Video

Trivia:

It took over seven hours to paint Linnea Quigley's body for her Virgin Dance of the Double Chainsaws set piece.

Quotes:

Jack Chandler: I'd stumbled into the middle of an evil, insidious cult of chainsaw worshipping maniacs. I had to wonder if we'd let our religious freedom go too far in this country, or maybe our immigration laws were just too lax.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Flesh Wounds: Seven Stories of the Saw (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

Lies

Woo HOO!

Fred Olen Ray has put out some real crap during his career, but the crap seems to be the stuff that sticks more closely to "conventions", like Deep Space, Spirits, etc. I enjoyed Alien Dead, Scalps, and Haunting Fear, although by no stretch of the imagination are they good films. And now I've finally seen THIS, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. Woo HOO! This is one fun movie. It's deliberately campy, has "regular" Jay Richardson as a private dick, a la Bogart, but sleazier, who does voice-over on a lot of this. Also has lots of beautiful and usually unclad women-folk who have a thing for chainsaws. Gunnar Hanson stars as a mysterious man who is the cult leader, of an ancient Egyptian chainsaw cult? When it's pointed out that Ancient Egyptians did not have chainsaws, one bimbo says "but what about the Chainsaws of the Gods?". Whee, heady stuff. I found this to be very enjoyable from start to finish, and the music is great too. If everything that Fred Olen Ray had touched had turned out this good, I would worship the ground he walks on. Of course, to enjoy this, one needs a good sense of humor and a strong stomach though, so don't run out & get this to watch with the family. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give this a 9. Woo HOO! This is a good 'un.