Bad Movie Club: Satan's Sadists


1969 motorcycle movie

Bad Movie Rating: 2/5 (Amy: 3/5; Fred: 1/5; Josh: 1/5; Libby: 1/5)

Rating: 6/20

Plot: A motorcycle gang bothers people.

Hey, it's John "Bud" Cardos as one of the sadists--Firewater. Who's that? Why, that's the director of our last Bad Movie Club viewing--The Day Time Ended.


There he is! He's not a terrible actor, and plays one of the more likable characters in this movie. I don't think Satan would be all that impressed with the sadistic qualities of these dudes. The tagline on the poster up there claims this is a "rebellion of human garbage," but I never bought it. None of the BMCers but me liked Russ Tamblyn as Anchor, the leader of the gang. I'm always happy to see him though, and that's regardless of whether or not he's wearing a woman's hat. Notorious B-movie director Al Adamson cheaply creates these edgy villains. But just giving a guy an eyepatch isn't going to be enough, especially if there's one member of the gang who can't stop giggling.

The plot of this sucker seems like it was made up as they went along. It's like Adamson found three locations--the middle-of-nowhere, a gas station and diner, and a more hilly middle-of-nowhere--and filmed a bunch of random stuff. There's some grimy 70's-glazed sexual content, but it's really just a tease. There's also some violence, including some terrible fake blood and a death-by-swirly scene which is probably the best thing about the movie; however, this is far from the "most violent film of the decade" as promised on the poster up there.

I don't know. Probably if the best scene in your movie is a swirly, your movie probably isn't very good.

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