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.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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