directed by Craig Ross, starring Ángel Vargas. Its sequel, Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil
was released in 2002. A second sequel, Killjoy 3 was released in 2010.
The film begins with a boy named Michael (Grimes), a kid who has the hots for a beautiful girl named Jada (Yell), but is always rejected because Jada is stuck with a gangster, Lorenzo (Johnson
), and when Michael comes close to her, he is threatened with bodily harm by getting beat up by both Lorenzo and his homeboys, T-Bone (Hampton) and Baby Boy (Goulant).
Do you understand, gentlemen, that all the horror is in just this—that there is no horror!
I can enjoy her while she's kind;But when she dances in the wind,And shakes the wings and will not stay,I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd: Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
[in Kenya]...any woman who is single and has multiple male sex partners is considered to be a prostitute, whether or not money changes hands.
[in India] Any sexual intercourse outside socially acceptable unions is likely to be regarded as prostitution.
[In Iran] Under mut'a, it is possible to be 'married' for as little as half an hour.
Egyptian law states that a man who is caught with a prostitute is not imprisoned; instead, his testimony is used to convict and imprison the prostitute.
Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.
Prostitution is organized rape.