I Watch Films: Angel (1984)
Angel (1984) Molly is a high school student at an exclusive private school by day; by night she’s Angel, a hooker on Hollywood Boulevard*. She has a number of friends there; Kit Carson, a former cowboy actor who claimed to have worked with Tom Mix**; Mr Yo-yo who does yo-yo tricks; Mae, a drag queen; Crystal and Lana, two other sex workers; and Solly, a painter and lesbian, her landlady, who indulges in the pretence that her mother has had a stroke (she actually abandoned her). Some plot arrives in the form of a nameless serial killer of sex workers who we mostly see working out in his shabby hotel room, lurking, and occasionally killing. The police get involved, Lt Andrews taking charge. After Crystal is killed he talks to all the Hollywood Boulevard people, suggesting the sex workers go in pairs. Unfortunately this turns out to be impractical and when Lana picks up a client she and Angel split up, only for Lana to be killed. Angel is now a witness, and the police use h...
