A talented writer, Edgar Allen, arrives in Hollywood with big dreams but is quickly pulled into a world of madness and depravity. A detective investigating a series of murders discovers that they are similar to the murders that occur in the new script by Edgar. Who will survive and what parts will be left for them?
Practical Effects
Glorious no-budget splatter effects that age like punk wine.
Production
Shot on 16mm with authentic skid-row Hollywood locations.
Acting
George Kuchar's unhinged cameo as a sleazy producer.
Director
Rufus Butler Seder
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1982 but shelved until 1984, this captures pre-gentrification Hollywood Boulevard in all its porno-theatre, donut-shop decay.
Director Rufus Butler Seder was 22 and funded this with inheritance money; the Edgar-Poe name game suggests he saw his own artistic martyrdom coming.
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