From the IMDB: 'It's remarkable that this film is not more popular. It successfully strips away the veneer of "civilisation" (false morality, good manners etc) and shows people as selfish, brutal animals, and depicts modern, asymmetrical warfare as a terrible nightmare where a group of brutish white thugs rape and murder a terrified, technologically backward society (nearly all of whom are defenceless/ poorly armed women and children) before finally being made to suffer a grim but deserved humiliation for their actions. Oh, actually, what am I saying?

Another sleazy trawl through the rotting underside of life courtesy of Ferrara; this time the setting is Manhattan and the story focuses on a serial killer who picks off hookers and exotic dancers and records his murderous deeds in a diary. Berenger and Murray, who run rival agencies for the latter, each suspect the other of the crimes but soon realize they actually have to work together to protect their clients; also caught up in the maelstrom is Griffith as Berenger's bisexual, drug-addicted ex-girlfriend.