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The movie starts out with a shot of an old couple pulled over on the side of the road to fix a flat tire. Suddenly, the sound of motorcycles, and on the horizon appears a gang of filthy dengenerates. They surround the car and menace the couple inside. Then, to the couple's suprise, they change the tire for them!
This sets the tone for the rest of the film. The bikers (played by real life motorcycle club "The Scorpians") aren't bad people, they just look different. Blah blah blah. Anyways, the bikers are constantly harrased by the cops, at one point the are arrested and sentenced to drive through the car wash on their motorcycles!
A biker wedding is broken up, and a young girl is raped by a redneck sherrif. The sherrif pins it on the bikers, and convinces the girl's father to take the law into thier own hands. They, along with a game hunter, go out biker hunting.
This is where the fun starts. Two biker's are out side the clubhouse when out of nowhere a bullet rips through the body of one of them. The other runs for the door, but he gets blasted in the doorway.
The first 20-30 minutes of this movie are kinda slow going. Basically endless shots of the bikers riding around and some really cheesy jokes. The second half really picks up quite a bit as we are treated to LOTS of super bloody slow motion shootings and meyhem. There's a shootout in a drive-in, and the exellent climax in the cemetery with 99% of the cast being blown away.
The direction was really good for a low budget American flick like this, lots of off-kilter framing, and the ample use of slow motion is very effective in capturing the death scenes, and there is a lot of them. Almost like a white trash Wild Bunch.
The acting however is horrendous. The most wooden, unnatural performances this side of an H.G. Lewis flick. The worst has to be the father, he delivers his lines like he's got to take shit REAL bad.
Also, the cool soundtrack was provided by none other than Michael Nesmith of The Monkees! You know, the one with the hat. Some good scumy scooter tunes, and listen to that song in the jail scene with lyrics like "A friend with weed is a friend indeed."
It took two people to direct this movie, William Dear and Thomas Dyke. Dyke was obviously the one with the talent as Dear would go on to direct awful shit like Harry And The Hendersons and Angels In The Outfield.
Overall, a very entertaining movie with a few goofy scenes and some truly shit acting. Well worth a few viewings and a great party movie.
