Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes.

Today’s theme: Bleeding Skull

Director and writer Jason Holt made six movies in four years, appearing in five of them — Desperation Rising, Angel of Passion, The Swindle, Tuesday Never Comes and Wager of Love — before making this, his last film.

Will (Mitchell Scott, who is the drummer of Cut Copy) is an undercover cop who is looking for a serial killer in the bondage underground of Los Angeles. I mean, that’s what they say this is about, but the result is…a journey to say the least.

Will keeps calling Shannon (Deborah Dutch, who was once Deborah Chaplin and starred in Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave and is the Debra Dare who shows up in Vice Academy 4 and 6), who runs a call girl service and keeps sending him new women to check out.

Somewhere in this, there’s a moment when adult star Sunset Thomas is tied to a bed and whipped by a really unattractive man. She’s not the only adult star on hand, as Trinity Loren, Julian St. Jox, Alana and Rebecca Bardoux are in this.

There’s also a role for Anne Gaybis, who is in all kinds of movies you’ve seen, like Massage Parlor Murders!, The Lost Empire, Fairy Tales, Necromancy, Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman, Showgirls, Bachelor Party, Black Shampoo and even the cashier in Friday the 13th Part III.

There’s so much in this that made me go into a druggy state of joy, like one of the girls who keeps dressing like a man, another character who cosplays Charlie Chaplin, so much fog, even more sax and someone who watched some David Lynch and said, “I can do that” but he couldn’t and we’re all the better for it. It also has dialogue like, “Come death dance with me: multiple times over and over and over, breathlessly delivered.

Who runs a prostitution business that kills men because of some past trauma? This movie’s protagonist or antagonist who is the same person. Does that make sense? No, neither does this movie. And also, it has Troma’s intro but I think this was done far from their fecund grip because even as weird and at times horrible as it is, it’s in another universe from their ham fisted catalog.

I wish they made four of these.

You can watch this on YouTube.