When a runaway rich kid (Over the Top‘s David Mendenhall) rescues a teenage hooker (Christina Applegate!) from a violent john, it ignites a desperate fight for survival across the seedy back alleys of Venice Beach. And it’s going to take everything they’ve got since the spurned lover is a psycho cop hellbent on silencing them both. Writer/director Katt Shea’s pulse-pounding, Roger Corman-produced thriller explores the gritty reality of life on the Streets, while also serving as a supremely entertainingly combo of The Terminator and Angel that features a fierce performance from Applegate and slick photography by future Oscar-nominee Phedon Papamichael.
“That was me just exploring the underside…I tend to really like to explore people I don’t know and so I started doing research on the streets and talking to people who lived on the streets. I did a lot of research and they thought I was a homeless person and I hung out with the kids and stuff and then wrote from that research. I knew a girl who was a heroin addict that we based Dawn on her.” – Katt Shea
