LAST POSSESSION ON MANDROID STREET (1988)
John Saxon, Brinke Stevens, Linnea Quigley,
Sally Kirkland, Paul Lynch, Jeff Fahey,Pam Grier

This tells of a ravaged, post-Apocalyptic Los Angeles (and it is
 implied, world), and peculiarly changed by a very
 particular disaster: it seems that fifty years in the future,
 a piece of "dark matter" was torn from a collapsing star,
 and, against all laws of physics, hurtled blindly through
 the universe until "pulled" to earth by the stray thought-
 emanations of an alcoholic priest (John Saxon) in mid-
 Exorcism. The disturbing effects of the dark matter's
 impact on Earth (this cataclysm is--tactfully--never
 shown), results in Los Angeles becoming nothing but a
 series of "photographs", with entire streets, populations,
 cars, etc. stuck in a horrid--and one is led to assume--
 eteranal frozen state.
         The one part of the planet not affected by this
 terrible stasis is a small section of North Hollywood Park-
 -now a rubble-strewn badland of roving "mandroids"
 (cybernetically-augmented leftovers from a visionary
 scientist Paul Lynch's experiments on a post-dark matter
 human form), feral dealers of the park's favored drug
 ("oogy-sticks") and various disaster-maddened,
 nymphomaniac females (Brinke Stevens, Linnea Quigley
 and Sally Kirkland among them).
         Positioned against these "low" denizens of
 Possession Street (named thusly as it was in this park
 that the priest, through his twisted faith, "pulled" this
 cataclysm to Earth), are bands of roving Catholic clergy,
 who lead clumsy battle against the unsaved, encumbered
 by facial cauls that look eerily like painted paper bags.
         Into this bleak future comes Arctarus (Jeff Fahey,
 in a career-defining role) a pale-eyed stranger who plays
 a mean lute, and, after many battles with the
 mysteriously "cauled" priesthood, several gender-
 bending interchanges with Kirkland (who has grown a
 vestigial penis on her right breast) and killing the now
 insane Lynch by ripping out his heart (ironically--and
 somewhat inexplicably--the piece of "dark matter" that
 caused all this) leads the denizens of the park into the
 frozen world. The last shot is that of the hardscrabble
 survivors of North Hollywood park, watching in wonder
 at a now unfrozen section of the San Fernando Valley
 that magically wakes into full motion, and the dawn sets
 on a new age.


-- Grey Zone 1, x. trapnel