EDITOR’S NOTE: Fyre was on the CBS Late Movie on June 14, 1988.

Directed by Richard Grand, who co-wrote it with Ted Zephro, Fyre decimates its protagonist, Fyre (Lynn Theel, Humanoids from the Deep, Without Warning), before the movie even gets rolling. She’s assaulted at a drive-in by three men while her boyfriend watches helplessly. When she tries to explain it to her father (Bruce Kirby), the only member of the family that seems kind of her, they all go to a picnic without her. After her brother (Ron Thomas, Cobra Kai member Bobby) starts a fistfight with some kids over her looks, they leave. Everyone has a good laugh over this, including mother (Cheryl Marie Jensen), until they laugh so hard they drive off the road and die.

Yes, the stage has been set for Fyre to go to Los Angeles and become a sex worker. Well, first she’s a singer in a bar that gets assaulted by the owner and saved by her man, Nick Perrine (Tom Baker, not the Time Lord), who goes to jail for four years for the punch up. Soon, Fyre is addicted to the money that comes from walking the streets. But those streets are dangerous and filled with criminals, like Preacher (Allen Garfield) and Pickpocket (Frank Sivero).

Her pimp might be the same man who raped her at the drive-in, so think of the weird coincidences of that. How can that happen?

The real reason for fans of streetwalker cinema to watch this is the scene where Fyre does a dance on stage with Carol (Donna Wilkes). Yes, Angel. And no, she’s not playing Molly Stewart in this, but man, you may not be expecting a sapphic sleaze scene when this movie has been so Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway up until now. Donna Wilkes really made the most of her late 70s and early 80s career, nearly getting Mike Brody killed (Jaws 2) before walking the Sunset Strip, being obsessed with Klaus Kinski — her father! — and perhaps killing most of his patients and stalking Marianna Hill (Schizoid) and being stalked by Frankie Avalon as a psychic maniac that she got a blood transfusion from (Blood Song).

As for Fyre, this movie feels improvised and that it just kind of hangs out before it figures that it’s over. Nearly everyone gets shot, Fyre kills her pimp and then goes back home, all for a man to immediately hit on her. The end? The end.

I can’t believe this played the CBS Late Movie.

You can watch this on YouTube.