Tough, energetic and violent, THE ART OF DYING is an above-average urban cop yarn set in the sleazy underworld of downtown Los Angeles.
Plainclothes vice detective Jack (Wings Hauser) has been working for 15 years rescuing teenage runaways from drugs, pornographers and pimps. Working with his cop cohorts Sarah (Sarah Douglas) and Delbert (Michael J. Pollard), Jack's been turning up a series of corpses with traces of stage makeup.
The bodies are the result of mad moviemaker Roscoe (Gary Werntz), who with the help of procurer Latin Jerry (Mitch Hara) has been killing and filming the deaths of shanghaied-from-the-streets "actors" and "actresses" in inventive ways:...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins