video renters' brains with Night Ripper!, director Jeff 
Hathcock and actor Larry Thomas (the future Soup Nazi from Seinfeld) returned to L.A. shot-on-video slasher territory with Streets of Death, a combination of police procedural and scuzzy serial killer sleaze. In other words, we're back in typical Hathcock territory. This time he even gets a star in top-billed Tommy Kirk, who really just gets a glorified cameo here a long way from his glory days as a Disney kid (Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog), an AIP beach movie regular, and leading man for Bert I. Gordon and Larry Buchanan. Mostly he gets to wrinkle up his nose and yell here as a retired divorced cop, but it's truly surreal seeing him in a project like this even for a few scenes. Again this one has been given the super deluxe Blu-ray treatment from Vinegar Syndrome partner label Culture Shock Releasing including a limited 2,000-unit slipcover edition, a long way from its marginal days as a fleeting VHS release. 
accented vice cop Kelly Anderson (Smith) 
is brought in to go undercover with a wire and gets teamed up with single cop Detective Jordan (Scott). She starts scoping out clients in front of a House of Bibles and wears a headband, but that's nothing compared to the spectacle of her in gold lamé chasing a geriatric naked john down the street. The actual identity of the guilty party gets revealed a third of the way in and shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but let's not ruin it anyway just in case. 
Shock release is obviously constrained by the original SD source material but looks fine for what it is, without any 
significant compression issues. The DTS-HD MA 2.0 English mono track (with optional English SDH subtitles) is also sturdy. A new commentary by the crew at the Movie Melt! Grindhouse and Exploitation Podcast mostly follows the same template as their earlier track wreck of a track for Night Ripper!, though this time they get a reasonable amount of info and observations in there about Hathcock, Kirk, etc. in between the giggling, sound bites, and bad jokes, so it's a step up. "Director of Death" (20m21s) is a new video interview with Hathcock talking about his "straight shooter" lifestyle compared to his sordid subject matter and various anecdotes from the shoot like his big star wanting to watch Lawrence of Arabia at his place after barfing on his bedsheets, as well as his desire to work with Thomas again and the "subtly visualized" (ha) implication that two characters are gay. Next up is an interview with Thomas (14m46s) about how he learned to modulate his performance for his second go-round with Hathcock, didn't have to audition this time, and got to play around with the double team aspect of his character while doing double duty like everyone else on the set. Finally an interview with cinematographer Michael N. J. Wright, "Shots of Death" (12m16s), covers his recent graduation from the American Film Institute when he made this, his thoughts on the slasher content, and the perils of working with tungsten lights. A 1m40s production gallery is also included, plus bonus trailers for Death Collector, Girlfriend from Hell, Slashdance, and Video Murders.