Roots of Evil
USA 1988. Director: Gary Graver
Cast: Alex Cord, Jillian Kesner, Charles Dierkop, Delia Sheppard
Aka: Naked Force

Some detectives (Alex Cord and Jillian Kesner) are investigating some slayings of prostitutes but they haven't got one single clue to anything. The lucky viewers on the other side, are allowed to know who the murderer is right from the start. It's a retarded cop who's also victim of mother fixation (and played by weirdlooking Charles Dierkop who was once in Jonathan Demme's Angels Hard As They Came). After finished business, he calls his ugly mother up and cries that he wasn't a bad child, but that he sure as hell gonna be a bad adult. And then he runs amuck in his little hotel room and drives around in his car looking for barely dressed girls who he can strangle. There's also a case with a rich woman who kills her husband. The motive? So she can have sex with her lesbian girlfriend. Hm, what else is there... there's also a fiddling cop, a streetbum who vomits blood over a stripdancer, a short visit to a real exploitation movie in progress and a Jillian Kesner (better known from Naked Fist) who is more often naked than not. Funny Jewel Shepard (one of the punks in Return of the Living Dead) steals the show, though, as a happy hooker who've lost her reading-glasses when attacked by the killer.