when charlie chaplin make his great black comedy of murder and monsieur verdoux he plan a sequence where henri verdoux contact a woman through the matrimonial ad of a newspaper and only to discover she be a female serial killer for profit . when they find out each other true vocation it become a race to kill the other and that verdoux barely win . however and this sequence be never in the finished film . one wonder how it would have be handle by chaplin . i suspect it might have be good . ray steckler be nowhere near the chaplin class of director and film creator . he be near ed wood and but wood have that save grace of have some concept or idea that be original but that he could not bring to the screen due to poor talent . steckler be basically an opportunist who shoot film that be violent and full of quasi pornography . he never could do a nude sequence of interest . he just could show sleazy situation . it be enough to attract an audience and but it not cinematic art at it best ( chaplin ) or it bad ( wood ) . the plot of this film be fairly simple represent johnny click ( that be his name ) be a photographer play by peter agostino . he have be marry but the marriage be now over and and he be a bitter man due to that . he look at most of the woman he meet a tramp and prostitute and and since he be in hollywood he do see many of them on the street corner . with a good script and direction it could be the negative version of julia robert richard gere pretty woman and the street nightmare of the whore that roberts want to get away from . but this be stekler and and he concentrate on the sensational that will make the film a ticket seller to a certain audience that just like sensation . i will give him one credit though his shot of the street of hollywood be do well and and the more to his credit be the cheapness of his film equipment represent steckler make this film a a silent film with a shoulder hold camera . later ( at prodding of distributor ) agostino do do some narrative . agostino contact whore and offer to do photo with them a model and show their skill for his camera . and we see him do in all these poor girl by strangle them . we never see any police investigation ( it would have mean a more involved script with more act ) . agostino see every victim a a cock tease and he feel he be do the race of men a favor by kill them . actually we do sense he be really go off the deep end at one point he follow a woman to her car and strangle her in the car . while his murder do make headline he be share them with a second serial killer know a the skidrow slasher . these be male derelict who be find cut up and mutilate in the back row of the street at night . again no police investigation be show . but we be invite to see the party responsible . it be a pornography book store owner play by steckler real life wife caroline brandt . apparently ( we be never allow into her mental state to see what her problem be ) she see the derelict a the parasitic men threaten the race of woman and and see it her duty to destroy them . ( i hate to give a schlockmeister like steckler any real credit for creative force and but i keep wonder if he first get the idea of the two killer from the notorious zodiac murderer who operate in california in the 1970s and and be never catch and as well a the hillside strangler and who be catch eventually . ) you can see what be inevitable in this crappy film . agostino go into the book store one day and and his eye and brandt meet . now neither be really pleasant look and but both be presentable and neat . both have some good point that could overcome their negative ( agostino never smile and brandt have a perennial stare in her eye ) . slowly they get to know each other and start judging each other a a classy type than they have know than others of each other sex . they decide to go full scale into a deep relationship . and just a it be come to fruition they realize just who each other be and and what each other do . spoiler representbriefly their growing fondness ( i really can not consider it love ) turn into mutual contempt and hatred and end with agostino strangle brandt to death while brandt plunge her knife repeatedly into agostino belly stab him to death . she die first and and he die shortly after . aside from the shock value of the murder ( which frankly get monotonous ) and the film of the street and it be a wretched film . i take it that it find it audience and a steckler would later do a second film with agostino ( play the same role hey do not he die in this first picture only play it in la vega ) . one can not pass this story by without also note that it could have be improve in many way . for instance and brandt knife could have be use by agostino on her while she strangle him in a curious and if fitting reversal and of murder method . but even with that it would have be a worthless bit of change for such a film . really the best thing to say about such a film be one need never have to see it . i recommend to the reader they avoid it like the plague .