Unlike many of these dime-store "Taxi Driver"s that revel in 1970s New York's unmistakable grime (see "Combat Shock" for a great example), this entry seems almost staid and refined. The dispassionate camerawork, stagy direction and naturalistic performances carry a powerful blow through scenes that would otherwise have played out like typical exploitation trash, especially when cast against the bluish pallor of a 9th-gen VHS dub. Worth hunting down.