In 1985 Los Angeles, during the Night Stalker murders, Maxine Minx lands the lead role in the horror film “The Puritan II,” despite her background in adult films. After sharing the news with her friends, Amber James invites her to a Hollywood Hills party, which she declines. At her second job in a live peep show, a mysterious leather-clad figure watches her. Another adult entertainer, Tabby Martin, also invites her to the same party, which she declines again.

The figure leaves a police evidence VHS tape of a porn film Maxine and her deceased friends made six years earlier. Confused, Maxine asks her friend Leon to investigate its origin. Meanwhile, in the Hollywood Hills, Amber and Tabby are murdered and branded with Satanic symbols. Maxine is summoned by private investigator John Labat, who threatens to expose her past crimes unless she meets his employer. Ignoring his demands, she focuses on rehearsing for “The Puritan II.” Leon is murdered in his video store, and Maxine is questioned by LAPD detectives about Tabby and Amber but refuses to cooperate. Labat later chases her on the Universal Studios lot but is caught by security. Maxine, with her agent and friend, tricks Labat and kills him in a junkyard.

Maxine visits the address Labat gave her, leading to a house in the Hollywood Hills where she finds Molly Bennett’s dismembered body. She learns her estranged father, televangelist Ernest Miller, and his fundamentalist followers are behind the murders, intending to make a snuff film to expose Hollywood’s corruption. Miller captures Maxine and attempts to “save” her through a filmed exorcism, but LAPD detectives interrupt, causing a shootout. Maxine frees herself, and during the chaos, the detectives are killed. Maxine confronts her father at the Hollywood sign, and a police helicopter interrupts their showdown. She envisions herself as a celebrity attending the premiere of “The Puritan II,” then returns to reality and kills her father, declaring his actions gave her divine intervention.

A month later, Maxine continues working on “The Puritan II,” determined that her success will never end.