They Charge An Arm And A Leg!
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers is a 1988 American parody of the Slasher Movie directed by Fred Olen Ray and starring Jay Richardson, Gunnar Hansen, and Linnea Quigley. It concerns a cult of prostitutes who kill people with chainsaws. Private detective Jack Chandler (Richardson) tries to track down Samantha Kelso - a teenage runaway (Quigley), and in the process, they run afoul of a cult of Egyptian chainsaw-worshipping prostitutes led by "The Master" (Hansen).
This film contains examples of:
- Adaptational Villainy: Anubis gets this once again, this time being a Human Sacrifice demanding god of chainsaws instead of the kindly god of mummification.
- Antagonist Title
- Big Bad: The Master, leader of the chainsaw cult.
- Big Damn Kiss: Chandler and Samantha share a rather passionate one after she rescues ''him.
- Censored Title: The British Board of Film Classification used to have a problem with the word "chainsaw," so the British VHS release had "Hollywood (picture of a chainsaw) Hookers" on the box.
- Chainsaw Good: The villains of the film have chainsaws as their weapons.
- Crapsack World: Los Angeles is a Wretched Hive where crime, including incestuous rape, is epidemic and a chainsaw cult is running around killing people for their dark gods.
- Cult: The main antagonists of the film are a cult that stems to Ancient Egypt and worships chainsaws.
- Disproportionate Retribution: After the opening text crawl, we cut to a hooker talking about one time she killed a guy with a chainsaw because he tried to scam her into a free lay.
- Do Not Try This at Home: The film opens with a disclaimer to be very careful around chainsaws, especially during sex. It ends with a message by the director himself that his conscience is clear.
- The End... Or Is It?: The Master is chainsawed and his cult are rounded up by the police, but the Master's body disappears.
- Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death
- Greater-Scope Villain: The cult worships Anubis the Chainsaw God, who gives their master immortality in exchange for Human Sacrifice, but said god is never seen.
- Immortality Immorality: The Master has a special ceremony where his cult commits mass Human Sacrifice so he can live another hundred years.
- Likes Older Men: Samantha
- The Master: This Master is a chainsaw-worshipping, immortality-seeking cult leader.
- May–December Romance: Chandler and Samantha.
- Ms. Fanservice: Samantha and all the chainsaw hookers appear nude at least once, but Mercedes wins the title, due to having the most nudity.
- Parental Incest: According to Da Chief, there's an epidemic of fathers raping their daughters.
- Private Eye Monologue: The protagonist has one. A Running Gag in the film is when the monologue directly contradicts the events on screen.
- Sadly Mythtaken: Done intentionally and Played for Laughs. In this universe, Anubis is the god of chainsaws instead of mummification.
- Translation Matchmaking: Became The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3: The Final Massacre in Brazil.
