Trip with the Teacher

Get ready to be blown away.

A couple of years ago I decided it was about time to turn my "complaing about everything blog" into something bigger, an exploitation paradise that would help the unaware become instant connoisseurs of a genre and an era worth remembering forever. Back then  I didn't know much about the genre so my opinions were mostly based upon other apparently renowned reviewers. Time went by and my earliest reviews didn't live up to the legendary name of the movies I reviewed, so there comes a time in a man's life where he has to redeem himself by paying homage to the greatest movies the way they were always meant to be paid homage. So, today I'll review once more "Trip with the Teacher" AKA "Deadly Field Trip", a 1975 Crown International Pictures production  written and directed by Earl Barton and starred by Brenda Fogarty (Miss Tenny, the teacher) and Zalman King (badass cold blooded murderer and rapist Al) The rest of the actors are more or less the supporting cast playing Miss Tenny's students and two extra bikers (one being Al's brother Peter, played magnificently by Robert Porter and the other being the good guy Jay)  The music score is also very groovy, definitely displaying what music was about in 1975 and if someone knows where can I find the complete score, please let me know 'cause Mr. Igo Kantor did an excellent job.

a Schoolbus full of teen meat.

Bikers, mean bikers.

So now let's get down to business and let me tell you about what the movie is about so that in case you haven't watched it yet, I'll give you a glimpse of it. Totally bonkers psycho Alan and his more mellow, but still quite lethal brother Peter are a pair of odious, malefic, resolutely vile and unwholesome degenerate biker louts who gleefully torment, terrorize, manhandle, degrade and generally flat-out grossly mistreat a prissy school teacher and her bus load of four nubile strumpet teenage girl students (Susie Russell, Cathy Worthington, Jill Voight and Dina Ousley, all sublimely delectable fair maidens who are just ripe with adolescent purity and ingenuousness) in a remote area of the California desert.

Hi, I'm Al and  I want to rape & murder your teenie slutty ass.

That's it for the admittedly skimpy plot and frankly who cares about some fancy-schmancy story, for what this really base and repulsive vintage 70's drive-in sleaze lacks in style and substance (plenty, man), it more than compensates for with a winning abundance of ferociously foul-minded hardcore grindhouse cinema sliminess. We've got blunt direction by Earl Barton, grainy cinematography by Erwin Jay Barer, and a get-down funky syncopated score by Igo Kantor. Moreover, we also got rape, gratuitous nudity, a thrilling motorcycle chase that's followed by an equally exciting foot chase, a truly mean misogynistic bent, a few fiercely protracted murder set pieces, a marvelously vicious last reel onslaught of mass killing and destruction, and absolutely no redeeming artistic quality to ground the assorted trashy activities in any slight semblance of unwanted pretense or needless gravity.

Al likes to hum a creepy song before & after his killing job is done.

Miss Tenny has no choice.

Best of all, it's considerably enlivened and made essential viewing by the incomparable Zalman King's frenzied, overwrought, explosively insane and unrestrained scenery-gulping histrionics. With his unsightly mass of curly, unwashed greasy hair, soiled dirt-stained blue jeans, irritating wheezing, deranged cackle, nasal, slurred mumble-grumble voice, enormous wrap-around black shades, fixed, unblinking baleful stare, crazed facial expressions (King contorts his sweaty puss into a hilariously pained grimace whenever he bags somebody), scraggly five day beard, getting wackier by the minute slow burn intensity, and hysterically out of it live-wire mugging, King could pass for either David Hess' severely dysfunctional sociopathic near twin brother or a twitchy heroin addict who's in dire need of an immediate fix. An exquisitely gnarly'n'nasty nugget. Besides, his relationship with his brother, Pete, is interesting as it seems that Pete goes along with the bad stuff simply to keep Al happy. He has moments when he seems to possibly change his ways, but always sticks with Al. This, despite that Al gives indications that he'd waste Pete too if Pete lets him down. The film doesn't go too far into their relationship which is too bad, it would have given the movie a little extra bit of interest.

One of the girls decide she can fuck one of the mean guys to set an escape plan.

The good guy has no chances left now.

"Trip with the Teacher" is a fantastic piece of early 70's sleaze that has a few lulls but for the most part, moves along nicely and is quite tense and suspenseful. The girls are all very pretty and sexy, having that classic "70's sexy high-schooler" look. The teacher is very sexy herself and looks like a 70's porno star. The guys do a good job, even the old man at the gas station who doesn't take Al's nonsense (he regrets it though!). However, the film, being a part of the 70's open mindedness does feature some disturbing scenes towards women treatment. One being the sexual assault against Miss Tenny, where we don't see any explicit sex/porn, but we actually some very violent acting that can disturb you easily, also, there's one killing scene where the visual violence toward women (again) reminds you the reasons why the exploitation genre was so disliked by women of all ages and why some filming rules have been applied since then to avoid any disturbing and/or schocking results. However, Trip with the Teacher looks like a Discover Kids toon compared to I Spit on Your Grave. You've been warned.

Trip with the Teacher's collage.

This is definitely a good viewing, but again, why is this film having such a low rating on big sites like IMDB? There are countless films much, much worse than this. Sleaze fans will not want to miss this one, made during an era when little film gems like this came and went, and were able to be made and put out in the first place. 

Here are some cool movie excerpts four your pleasure:

The Opening scene:

The Gas Station scene:

The catfight scene:

See you next time with more exploitation classics!