An underused protagonist in films of the last century...porn actresses! We all want them but never say it in public. Because of our silence we get dweeby community activists advocating for racial justice or the environment...BORING! No! Give us a porn actress with fishnets, heels, leather, and a big sword. There! I said it! Thankfully, Paul Ragsdale and Angelica De Alba felt the same way and made 2016's "Streets of Vengeance." So much to say about this film...all good. Mr. Ragsdale and Ms. De Alba must have made this epic with this blog in mind.
First a shout out to Eden Trevino who hosts this film as Stacy Monroe. Her bikini antics and playful good cheer is what every film made in this millennium needs more of. Okay, very sad! Lana (Jazmine C. Sanders) opens the story with an uber-alluring exotic dance routine. She'll be horribly slashed in a back alley by the San Francisco Slasher, just the latest of many victims. The puritanical psycho is shredding porn stars and adult entertainers. Next we meet Mila (Delawna McKinney), the world's greatest porn star. She has announced her retirement infuriating her producer/agent Ivan (Bryan Hurd) and saddening her colleague and BF Amber (Paige Le Ney).
Mila wants to move on and complete herself. The industry and unbalanced fans go bananas. We meet a puritanical deviant cult leader, Garrett (Daniel James Moody). His minions seek to purify the world by abducting porn stars and slicing them up on snuff videos. Many of Mila's buddies are sliced and eventually Mila is abducted by them. The leather and fishnets are thrown at us as babes are murdered. Uh oh for the cult, Mila survives after some torture and marring. Now Mila is armed with a sword and a baseball bat. She organizes a porn star army (YES!!!) and an all out war ensues. Heels, deviant BDSM costumes, and Ginger Lynn gratify our viewing experience further. Gratuitous baths, porn stars in lesbian kissing scenes, exotic dances, and popping eyeballs explode at us from the silver screen in this homage to 1980s crime dramas.
Who else is behind this cult that seeks to wipe out our porn actress babes? Is this film a thinly veiled metaphor for a misogynistic Hollywood that is bent on adhering to the same old boring stories? Is Mila the id inside all of us that seeks to rebel against a seemingly unbeatable machine? An anthem to the underdog, perhaps. "Streets of Vengeance" is a deviant and gory epic filled with sex, violence, and gratuitous everything. Get your fill of porn star-sploitation and put on "Streets of Vengeance."
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