Angelfist

Angelfist
Directed by	Cirio H. Santiago[1]
Written by	Anthony L. Greene[1]
Produced by	Roger Corman Cirio H. Santiago
Starring	Catya Sassoon Michael Shaner Melissa Moore
Cinematography	Joe Batac
Edited by	Edgardo Vinarao
Music by	Stephen Cohn
Production company	Hollywood Road Films
Distributed by	Concorde-New Horizons[1]
Release date	1993 (1993) [1]
Running time	80 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English

Angelfist is a 1993 martial arts^[1] action film starring Catya Sassoon, Michael Shaner, and Melissa Moore. Directed by Cirio H. Santiago, the film was produced by Santiago and Roger Corman.

An assassination in the Philippines is caught on film by kickboxer Christy, which leads to her death at the hands of radicals intent on disrupting peace talks. Her sister Kat, a Los Angeles police officer, comes to Manila to try and bring the people responsible to justice. She enters a kickboxing tournament in order to get closer to the murderers, and begins unravelling the twisted plan while narrowly evading the wrath of the Death Brigades.

In his book on martial arts in American cinema, M. Ray Lott said Angelfist was "much more interested in showing [Catya Sassoon] as a sexual object" than would be the case in a film with Cynthia Rothrock, the usual figure in that subgenre. Her nude appearance resulted in her being "almost launched as soft-porn action heroine". Lott called the film itself "a titillating exploitation vehicle for undiscriminating action audiences" and acknowledged that "[i]t knows its target audience".^[1]

• Angelfist at IMDb
• Angelfist at Rotten Tomatoes