An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
Acting
Wings Hauser's Ramrod: genuinely terrifying, improvised chaos.
Cinematography
Pre-gentrification Hollywood Boulevard captured in sweaty neon.
Score
Cheap synths that somehow slap harder than they should.
Director
Gary Sherman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wings Hauser based Ramrod on a real pimp he met researching; the guy later tried to sue. Hauser kept the leather jacket.
Shot in 13 days on actual Hollywood Boulevard locations now demolished or gentrified beyond recognition—this is documentary footage of a lost city.
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