Red-Barracuda This incredibly shoddy 60's biker flick is a real mess. It features Ross Hagen as a man who infiltrates a bike gang called The Hellcats in order to find out who killed his brother. The plot has about as much focus as the blurry camera-work. It's all over the place. Random events sometimes happen for no discernible reason, for example, the scene where the artist and his model are attacked by bikers doesn't seem to have any relevance to anything. On the other hand, when a potentially half-interesting moment is about to happen, it's not shown at all; like when the bike race between to two gang leaders happens off-screen, wow the excitement. The scenes with The Hellcats are pretty sloppy in general and often just seem to consist of them muntering around while the psychedelic pop of the never-popular Davey Jones and the Dolphins plays endlessly in the background. The theme tune may nefariously make its way into your subconscious, so please beware. Despite the presence of authentic looking bikers, this is not exactly convincing stuff. When Ross Hagen first meets The Hellcats, he wins their respect by defeating their leader by simply pushing him over. I'm not certain that manoeuvre would've worked with The Hell's Angels to be perfectly honest but hey this is the movies eh? Our gang do incorporate some harder initiation rituals however, such as the strange limb stretching procedure so fair play but, sadly, they also have a member who goes around annoyingly playing a bugle at every given opportunity, so less respect on that score.At the end of the day this film is all over the place. The camera-work is out-of-focus and badly framed, with peoples heads often off-screen. The acting is really terrible. The story is badly put together. And the action scenes are terribly presented (you would be forgiven for not even noticing when The Hellcat leader is shot, it's so shoddily done). Overall, it wasn't all that entertaining and can only be described as a truly Z-Grade counter-culture clunker.

Zeegrade Hellcats is an incoherent mess where the plot becomes secondary to the superfluous drug-addled parties thrown by the motorcycle gang. Ross Hagen is Sgt. Monte Chapman whose brother was recently murdered while he was investigating the Hellcats in some capacity. I watched the original movie instead of the one featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and I still had an incredibly hard time deciphering the plot. Monte then decides to go undercover with his brother's fiancé and find out who is responsible for the murder. This is where the movie completely falls apart. The endless parties are filled with late sixties drug slang and lame expressions of machismo. One such race between a Hellcat and a rival gang member is enacted off screen with the end resulting in a fistfight that is stopped when Monte jumps in a says "Peace brothers!". After an even lamer competition to prove Monte's toughness is passed he soon becomes a free-wheeling Hellcat complete with bedding any woman you want. Can't say I can argue with that perk. The women are pretty hot especially Sharyn Kinzie as the tough-as-nails redhead Sheila. Sheila begins to trust Monte and lets him in on their business ventures. At this point I wished that I was on some of the hallucinogenic drugs they took at one of their roughly 7,000 parties that week. To make things worse Tony Cardoza makes an appearance as a painter in the middle of the woods. Thankfully he doesn't speak. This is a bad movie though I have seen far worse. Frightening, I know.

Johann This is the reason why some people should not make films. What can I say about this "movie?" I first saw it on MST3K, and for some reason I decided to watch it without the constant jokes. This may be even worse than "Eegah!" There is no plot. No really, there is no plot.They had some kind of back story involving a cop being killed and his brother and fiancée deciding to take revenge on dope syndicate that killed him by infiltrating the biker gang than runs dope for them. However, the interim between the ultimate show down and the intro is filled with a bunch of bikers drinking, fighting, drinking, smoking pot, being pulled behind bikes, drinking, sneaking off into the woods, and more drinking. Some how, the female bikers trust a woman (the fiancée) that they've just met enough to go down to Mexico with them to pick up some heroin (this has to be the loosest gang in history). Ultimately, there's trouble that leads the brother and fiancée to the leaders of the dope ring.Look for Ross Hagen (as someone else defined him, the budget Steve McQueen) in the main role (the dead cop's brother) and a small role for Gus Trikonis (the former Mr. Goldie Hawn, who hasn't done anything in a while) as the dope connection in Mexico.Forget trying to watch it on its own. It's not worth losing brain cells over.

ryanmontemaggi My friends and I watched the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version, and man was this the worst movie I've ever sat through. There is little plot at all, and even if there were a plot nobody would know what it was since the dialog in the movie is impossible to hear even on high volume. Most of the movie consists of watching people ride motorcycles, watching people do drugs and party, and more riding motorcycles. Its a test in tolerance, honestly. If you watch the trailer for it (which is on the MST3K DVD) it is basically showing the entire "plot" of the movie crammed into a 5 minute segment. Literally, it shows all the scenes from the movie that actually developed the plot. So if you really want to see this movie for some reason, I recommend the trailer because then you wont have to watch the entire boring movie since the plot can be ruined by the trailer alone.