Don Malek (Stephen Geoffreys) isn't the usual tenant found in the skid row hotels of downtown L.A. Overcome with grief since the murder of his fiancee Katherin, the successful screenwriter-turned murderous vigilante is bent on revenge against studio head Stanley Glissberg, the man cleared of murder charges in Katherin's death. Don hasn't forgotten - and Glissberg's going to pay. Enter Don's tenacious literary agent, Ava Collins (Tiffany Shepis), who tracks him down and wants to sell his new script - if there is one - or cut him loose. Don assures her he's holed-up in the dingy room to write, and his screenplay's a work-in-progress. But after the kidnap, torture, and murder of Glissberg, he still feels a void inside. Adding to his slippery slope, Don calls on a neighbor to help hide the crime, and in doing so, uncovers despicable abuses down the hall. Spitz (Ezra Buzzington) is a hard-drinking former Marine and paraplegic, with a penchant for hookers and a violent streak. When he asks a return of the favor - to get rid of an injured girl in his room - Don must choose between turning a blind eye, or quickening his own destructive spiral. Add to the mix a relentless homicide detective, a nosy has-been rock star (Corey Haim), an unscrupulous rival agent, and Ava Collins' increasingly warped frame of mind, and the tenants of the New Terminal Hotel are about to check into a vortex of revenge, madness and murder...moreless
