Low-budget Lolita.

Apparently, Lee "LoFi" Sobel's film LUVRGRL concerns "an 18-year-old girl named Zoe whose life is torn apart by her spiraling sexual addiction." The distribution company, Brooklyn's Lo-Fi Entertainment and Home Video compares LUVRGRL to no less than Breaking the Waves, but then tacks on the following disclaimer:

The screenplay has been written by Seattle-based Lorelei Shannon, giving a great deal of sensitivity to the female lead character. Attention was also taken to [ensure] that the movie not be degrading to women and in fact carries a pro-female sexual empowerment message.

Which struck us as a bit curious. Why so earnest? Why so worried about being perceived as degrading? From what we could tell, LUVRGRL is no worse than any other low-budget would-be Lolita.

Then we noticed the other title on Lo-Fi's website: HOTTIES II: The Hot, The Bad & The Ugly, wherein the Hotties' "nefarious nemesis" Doc (who "performed evil sexperiments on them in the loony bin") is "using lesbian go-go dancers [to create] his own army to destroy the Hotties."

Oh, right. Degrading.

LUVRGRL premieres this Saturday and Sunday at Freight, 410 W. 16 St. (betw. 9th & 10th Aves.), 212-242-6555, 7:30, $8.