Vice Squad (1982)

Season Hubley (HARDCORE) stars as Princess a loving single mom turned Hollywood hooker who can provide any depraved pleasure for the right price. But when a volatile cop (Gary Swanson) uses her to trap a sadistic killer Princess becomes the prey of a psychotic pimp known as Ramrod (a mind-blowing take-noprisoners performance by Wings Hauser). Tonight the neon jungle of Los Angeles will explode in an orgy of vengeance and violence. And the only outlaws more desperate than the hustlers whores and freaks that rule the streets are the VICE SQUAD. You may think you ve heard of every sickness and perversion movies like to titter about wrote Rex Reed in The New York Daily News but there are quite a few in VICE SQUAD you ve never dreamed possible! Pepe Serna (SCARFACE) and original MTV VJ Nina Blackwood co-star in this vicious 80s action smash from the creator of the schoolgirl hooker hit ANGEL and the director of DEAD & BURIED.System Requirements:Features: Widescreen Presentation enhanced for 16x9 TVs Theatrical Trailer Radio Spots Poster And Still Gallery Audio Commentary with Co-Writer/Director Gary Sherman and Moderator David Gregory. Running Time: 92 MInFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 013131320497 Manufacturer No: DV13204 Product Description

Good action from the 80's!

Vice Squad is a great action movie from the 80's if you like shows like "The Shield". The movie stars a young "Wings Hauser"(Ramrod) and "Season Hubley"(Princess). Ramrod is a pimp in the dark streets of L.A. who kills one of his ladies of the evening (Ginger) who is friends with Princess. After speaking with the police, Princess is distraught over the death of her friend Ginger and agrees to set up Ramrod. The two battle it out in the means streets!! Check out this action thriller!! August 31, 2008

Are you a cop?

WOW, the adventures of Princess, Blue Chip, Ko Ko and all the rest are brought vibrantly to the screen in this DVD release of a campy and over-the-top look at a typical night on the Hollywood Vice Squad. You know the story, Princess has a daughter who is sent away to San Diego with her rent-a-nanny while mommy turns tricks to pay for her stuffed animals. In the mean time, a friend has been pimp-sticked to death and a Vice squad officer guilts Princess into wearing a wire to entrap the psycho pimp who killed her friend. He is captured, but then escapes and goes on a hunt to get even with the bitch who entrapped him. So now the vice squad has to hunt two people instead of one, and it turns into a been there, done that day late dollar short series of misses until Ramrod and Princess meet up and she gets worked over good before Ramrod is crushed by the vice squad cops car just in the nick of time.

This movie is full of wonderful characters, Princess, Walsh, the Vice Squad cop who has a thing for her, Ko Ko the Korean hooker, Blue Chip who wears blue poker chip earings, also a hooker, a sugar pimp named Dorsey, leather guys like Fast Eddy with the mother of all tattoos, angry African-American bar patrons, a psycho garage owner named Roscoe, Mrs. Cruckshank, the owner of a motel on the strip who plays mah jong with Wong, a small "ornamental" whose diminutive stature belies a powerful martial arts background and an old rich guy who gets off on laying in a coffin while Princess in a wedding gown marches down the stairs to the mixed tuneage of the Wedding March and a funeral durge.

Great lines include:

"Blink motherf#*&er and you die in the dark" and "Not that one, the blue Ford, five-hundred don't get you no Eldorado", and my favorite, "My man will have a kilo of white stuff here before you can jump out of your leathers and spank yourself."

Well, that may be too much info, but I like the flick. It's a scream, it's campy and above all, it's out of date. July 31, 2007

Obscure Gem From the Eighties

In the eighties there were two indelible portrayals of psychotic pimps, Morgan Freeman as Fast Black in "Street Smart" and Wings Hauser as Ramrod in "Vice Squad". Unfortunate for Freeman, "Street Smart" was a rather forgettable venture but Hauser was luckier. Hauser's contribution is reason alone to see "Vice Squad" but the picture is so much more. The film works on two levels. Firstly, it's a cinema verite document of the vice scene in Hollywood. Secondly, it's a dark comedy about the proclivities of the johns that frequent the strip. A personal fave of mine is Season Hubley in Frederick's of Hollywood bridal wear to fulfill a rich john's fantasy. The film is also beautifully photographed in all it's neon decadence. I note this because some would dismiss "Vice Squad" as "B" movie fodder. The cinematographer here is John Alcott who won an Oscar lensing Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon". "Vice Squad" may not be for all tastes but I thought it was great. May 25, 2007

WOW! Finally on DVD!

Back a few years ago, this movie was really hard-to-find on VHS. Anchor Bay, as always, has done a stellar job on the presentation of this movie. Everything from utilizing the original movie poster artwork for the DVD cover, to the picture quality- it's all perfect. If you like trashy, gritty, and violent movies, this movie will deliver big time. I remember it was released in 1982, but kept being brought back as an added feature at the drive-ins here in Toronto, right up until 1984. If you are a fan of early '80s movies, and with a lot of violence, but a great plotline that will keep you captivated, "Vice Squad" will not disappoint! January 23, 2007

Strange and crazy, but true things happens in big cities.

This is a very good action movie that will probably more likely than not make the average veiwer amazed (but then again maybe not) that this kind of stuff actually goes on in big cities. January 19, 2007

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