Podcast: Angel
A sleazy LA sex worker movie that is lovable as hell
99 Cent Rental Podcast
Episode 14: Angel
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99 Cent Rental is a comedy podcast revisiting the low-budget action, comedy, and science fiction films that clogged video store shelves throughout the 1980s and early 90s.
Every other week, hosts Bryan and Dave White, hosts of the Bring Me The Axe! horror podcast, dive deep into the nearly forgotten world of ninjas, breakdancers, skateboarders, action hero knockoffs, and Cold War paranoia that embodied the excess and over-the-top attitude of the 1980s and celebrate them for everything they were and weren’t.
This week, Bryan and Dave get real sleazy with it and take a good long look at Angel, from 1984. Starring Donna Wilkes and a cast of wild character actors, including Susan Tyrrell in her second appearance on the podcast. Angel sets out to be a grimy exploitation movie that casts the seedy underbelly of the Hollywood Boulevard nightlife against the hard neon glow of the Los Angeles dream factory but it's a movie so in love with its oddball weirdo characters that it seems to struggle against the mandate to deliver violence, nudity, and cheap thrills, choosing instead to be a vehicle which provides its cast with all the scenery that they care to chew on. Make no mistake. Angel is garbage but it's remarkably lovable garbage that everyone should see.
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