Directed by: Christina Hornisher
Stars: Christopher Augustine, Jeannette Dilger, Dick Glass, Gayle Davis, Kia Cameron, Dianna Huntress, Beverly Walker, Ralph Campbell
Language: English
Country: Usa | Imdb Info
Description: Mark is a Midwestern transplant in Los Angeles with a camera, a thin résumé, and a growing sense that he’s already missed his shot. To pay rent, he takes the kind of work no one wants on their reel—quick, disposable “adult” shoots for a crude producer who keeps the equipment locked down and the ambition locked out. Mark tells himself it’s temporary. But the longer he stays, the more the city rewires him: women become images, intimacy becomes performance, and every conversation starts sounding like a lecture he can’t escape.
He drifts through a grimy, off-strip Hollywood ecosystem—cheap sets, smoke-hazed apartments, late-night drives—trying to talk his way into a “legit” job while hiding what he actually shoots. When he meets Michele, a performer with her own complicated reasons for being in the scene, their connection is unexpectedly gentle: two outsiders bonding over art, loneliness, and the shared disappointment of what L.A. promised versus what it delivers. But Mark’s inner life is already buckling—old guilt, family scars, and a mounting rage he can’t name.
As the film crawls forward, it stops feeling like a thriller and starts feeling like a slow collapse caught on 16mm. The city’s neon boredom and constant objectification become a pressure cooker, and Mark’s instability turns predatory. By the time violence finally asserts itself as the “point,” it lands less like a twist and more like the inevitable endpoint of a man who’s been hollowed out by environment, shame, and a camera lens that can’t look away.
Legacy Note:
Long mis-sold and half-buried for years, Hollywood 90028 plays today like a lost, downbeat cousin of Taxi Driver—but filtered through grindhouse economics and an unusually personal, psychological angle. The fact it was written and directed by Christina Hornisher gives it an extra sting: beneath the sleaze-adjacent surface, it’s clearly trying to be a bleak statement about exploitation, alienation, and the way “the industry” can turn people into props. The result is slow, talky, and uneven… yet haunted in a way a lot of slicker 70s shockers never manage.
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