Glitter Goddess of Sunset Strip

Glitter Goddess of the Sunset Strip is a trip!

Yes, it's super low-budget. It has a shot-on-home-video feel to it.

But Llana Lloyd has a lot of balls to make a movie about her life, and to play both herself and her mother.

The movie has a strange charm to it. It's melodramatic one minute, then suddenly sober with actual talk show footage (including a clip with a young Oprah.)

There's also home movie footage showing real-life Llana with her family.

Llana's story is also interesting because she talked about growing up with a gay parent long before the mainstream media talked about these things. She also talks about having a schizophrenic father.

And then there's the Glam Rock element. The music concert recreations are crude at best, but it's Llana Lloyd's attempt to even film them that makes it compelling.

Angela Bowie makes a bizarre cameo. But that also lends to the film's cult quality.

And Lloyd references Alice Cooper and The New York Dolls along with other Glam Rock groups from that era.

So if you're expecting a straight-up documentary, this isn't it. If you're expecting a straight-forward dramatic film, this isn't it either. But if you want a strange hybrid from another dimension, this is the Ed Wood of Glam Rock groupie movies.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Complete trainwreck.The bar scenes are atrociously bad.

Llana Lloyd narrates her life thru interview clips she did on television sometimes alone and other times with her openly lesbian mother. Llana also plays her self in her own dramatized segments of the documentary, albeit "low quality" the story of her life is so captivating that watching her perform as herself (and sometimes her mother) in the over the top way she does makes her so endearing and lovely to you as the viewer.

This is the kind of movie that proves that a good engaging story and authenticity prevail above all other qualifiers.

Yeah, it doesn't have the cinematography to appeal to a majority of movie watchers but I would challenge any of you to watch this movie through to the end and tell me that you didn't just watch a woman put her whole heart into this documentary.

The title should be changed to "Sucks Out Loud". What were these people thinking. I probably have more money in my wallet now then spent on the film budget. I'm actually embarrassed for the people in it. In today's technical world it can never be erased once it's out there. But I must come up with ten lines describing it. I have seen better films on my phone when I accidentally hit record and put it in my pocket. I'm really disappointed in myself for sitting through it. If anything, it gives me hope that I can direct a film. I couldn't do any worse. Save your money people. If you see this title thrown into a DVD with multiple other movies on it.