Angelo desired to become a police officer as he applied to the police force.  However, the police rejected Angelo’s application, as they deemed him to be unfit to be an officer.  In order to get a fresh start Angelo moves to L. A. where he again applied to become a police officer, and again he they rejected him.  This turned Angelo to illegal activities as he practiced psychiatry in a private clinic.  When Angelo arrived to L. A., he received help to get started by his cousin Bianchi, a mechanic, and together they began to explore their perversions as they turned into pimps.  However, when their business went bad, vengeful anger grew and they sought someone to vent their anger on.  This was when the two cousins turned into raving serial killers that murdered for pleasure in order to satisfy their twisted appetites power and subdue desire to see others suffer.

Hillside Strangler is a brutal film that occasionally borderlines pornography as it depicts the cousins’ exploitations.  Interested viewers might be curious, but the story does not fulfill any curiosity, or cinematic value.  Viewing Chuck Parello’s film is almost criminal as it provokes feelings of partial responsibility being a spectator to what the cousins are doing.  Besides the exploitative narration, the film does not have much to offer as it continues to the end with meaningless murder, until they get caught.  Thus, Hillside Strangler leaves the audience with an empty cinematic experience as it has only opened a void that requires something of substance.

DIRECTED BY

Chuck Parello

COUNTRY

USA

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