Alright, today I'll give you some brief reviews since these bunch of flicks didn't have that much to offer. Most of the are found on Mill Creek's 12 Movie Collection "Savage Cinema". "Twister's Revenge" & "The Devil has 7 Faces" both come from Mill Creek's "50 Drive-in Movie Classics"
Movie number one promises a lot on it's title and movie poster Hellcats! (1967)
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| Hellcats? I'd say Lamecats. |
The storyline reads promising: "A soldier comes back from the war and goes undercover to avenge the death of his cop brother. His link to the murder is the fiancée of his brother, who wants vengeance too, and knows he was an infiltrated cop with a drug-dealing biker gang, the Hellcats, who are employed by the mob to move the drugs from Mexico to the USA. The two would-be avengers infiltrate the Hellcats, the girl is abducted, and now it's the retired soldier against all the bad guys" Written by Ken Oyler
Now to bo honest all you see in the movie is a bunch of junkies, alcoholics, bad dancers and yeah bikers. The movie tries to portrait some sort of hippie bikers comunity that spends most of its time on the field having fun. It's only at the very end of the movie that we see the part of the drug dealing thing and some action, but oh boy what a let down.
Movie number 2, Dangerous Charter (1962)
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| Dangerous Boredom. |
The storyline offers us: "A fishing boat discovers a deserted luxury yacht at sea with a dead body on board. They claim the yacht as salvage, not knowing that a drug smuggling ring has hidden $500,000 worth of heroin on the boat" Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com
Now movie number 3 Death Machines (1976) a martial arts wannabe movie with a simple storyline about an evil Oriental Dragon Lady which injects three martial arts fighters with a serum that turns them into zombie-like assassins, and she sends them out against her many enemies.
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| Could have been. |
Which such plot you could probably think, hey this is going to be a great action packed movie! but, oh boy! the movie is definitely an attempt, but a very poor one. The three killers are ok, but I guess they didn't have bigger matches on the script so we don't really get to see them as the "Death Machines" they want us to think they are.
The main character is a complete loser, a martial arts wannabe who gets beaten every time he gets his nose into something, the good thing about him is probably his beatiful nurse girlfriend (sorry no exploitation)
Overall it's a bad movie, but you can watch it, it does have some action scenes and also some sort of thriller like scenes where this dragon lady plots her next killings.
Movie number 4 Hell on Wheels (1967)
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| Boredom on Wheels. |
Storyline:
"Two brothers, one a popular race car driver that all the women love and the other a brilliant mechanic who makes the winning possible, become enemies when one messes with the other's girlfriend" Written by Fryingham
Essentially, the movie in itself, loses it's flow with the excess of racing scenes with little or no interest at all, add some bad country music, and Uncle Sam's propaganda stating "Remember: Moonshine Kills"
The film has it's camp value, and definitely is worth watching with a bunch of friends as the background movie, or music since it's so boring that you don't need to bother on focusing your busy mind on the movie all the time.
Now, it is obvious that this movie suffers from its time, car racing in those days was the new real thing, but still that wasn't enough to make a movie about racing scenes with a subplot.
Movie numer 5 Il Diavolo a Sette Face (1971)
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| Almost. |
Carroll Baker stars as a woman targeted by a group of international jewel thieves who mistake her for her twin sister. It would seem that her twin made off with a serious rock of some other families jewels. Two men help the desperate woman to run from the pursuing thieves but are they what they seem.
'Seven Faces' starts out with the feel of a 'Giallo' (even the name seems to indicate it) but you soon find out that it's a fairly standard crime thriller with the prerequisite twist. The production is pretty standard. It's not overly visually
interesting and the script isn't much better. For fans of the genre only.
Movie number 6 The Wild Rebels (1967)
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| You call this wild? |
Storyline: "After one crash too many, race car driver Rod throws in the towel only to be recruited by a motorcycle gang to be a getaway driver for their next bank robbery" Written by Leo L. Schwab
This was a movie that had a promising title, bikers? wild? blonde? kicks? unfortunately the best of the movie is just that, the movie poster.
The poorly developed plot is about a car racer who becomes part of a bikers gang, famous for their "ferocious" crimes hahaha (sorry but if that was considered as ferocious ILMAO) so these bikers decide to change their modus operandi by doing their next big kick in a car, as to avoid the police, aware of their bikes. Boy that sounds good!
Overall the movie is about a "Wild" nothingness. There is only the final town bank robbery scene with very lame action and the rest is mostly the bikers and their new friend planning their big act. They didn't even bother to add some sex or nudity, which could have helped the movie a lot but oh brother!
Movie number 7 Twister's Revenge (1987)
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| Silly. |
Basically a movie about a computerized Monster Truck named Twister, that seems to be of interest to three very stupid thugs.
To watch it and enjoy it you need to be totally wasted, high on drugs or drunk. Sober you would kill yourself.
Soon i'll be reviewing a really good movie 1973's Exploitation Sex & Fury the movie that served as inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, featuring cult starlet Christina Lindberg.
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