The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher (1979)

Director
Ray Dennis Steckler

Main cast
Pierre Agostino; Carolyn Brandt

Genres
Horror

Description
A photographer cruises Hollywood and takes pictures of young models he then strangles. Meanwhile, a woman who works in a porno bookstore in downtown L.A. takes it upon herself to kill off the local derelicts. Soon the two killers meet up with each other.


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