Greetings my readers and on to Day 3 of
Grindhouse Flicks. This is an interesting one. Imagine
incorporating a horror film with action and car chases. A weird one,
right? Don't worry it's not The Hitcher or its unfortunate remake.
Instead we have two couples on out vacation on their way to Aspen
Colorado. Rather than fly like sensible people they are gonna make
an adventure of it with a RV and hopefully Trumpy of Pod People will
not make an appearance. This is Race with the Devil.
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| Oh stop pouting, I didn't mean to eat all your jerky. |
Written by exploitation writers Wes
Bishop (The Pick-Up, Love Camp 7, Chain Gang Women, The
Thing with Two Heads and The Black Gestapo) and
writer/director Lee Frost (Hot Spur, Chain Gang Women,
The Thing with Two Heads, Two for the Money, Policewomen and The
Black Gestapo) and directed by actor/director Jack Starret
(Cry Blood, Apache, Night Chase, Slaughter, Cleopatra Jones, A
Small Town in Texas and Final Chapter: Walking Tall) we are
clearly in for some unusual and possible taboo.
Roger Marsh (Peter Fonda of Easy
Rider, Futureworld, Outlaw Blues, Molly & Gina, Love and a .45
and Escape from L.A.) and his business partner/racing buddy
Frank Stewart (Warren Oates of In the Heat of the Night, The
Wild Bunch, Badlands, Stripes, The Border, Blue Thunder and Tough
Enough) run a fairly prosperous motorcycle dealership between
designing their own cycles and pawning off Hodaka 100s they decide it
is time for a break and Frank preps a 30 foot RV for everyone's
enjoyment. Frank's wife Alice (Loretta Swit of M*A*S*H,
Freebie and the Bean, The Love Boat, Beer, 14 Going on 30 and Forest
Warrior) has got it all packed and Roger's wife Kelly (Lara
Parker of Dark Shadows, Adventures of the Queen, Mobile One, The
Solitary Man, Galactica 1980 and Rooster) is all excited to
bring the Lhas Apso along.
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| ON YOUR RIGHT!!! |
After more than a few hours on the
road, everyone is getting a bit punchy, probably due to roadside food
and too much I-Spy games. The lot sets up camp in a remote area of
central Texas...barely 3 hours from San Antonio so you know they are
making great time and the guys break out the dirt bikes to cut loose.
The ladies tuckered from the lengthy trek across Texas (large
frickin' state lemme tell you) so they turn in while the
fellas go out wandering for a bit, chewing the fat when they stumble
across what looks to be a human sacrifice??? The guys get jumped by
the Satanists and have to duke their way out of harm's way, make it
back to the RV and hightail it out of there.
The local butt scratcher, I mean
sheriff (R.G. Armstrong of
Lone Wolf McQuade, Trapper John, M.D., The Best of Times, Jocks,
Predator, Friday the 13th
The Series and Payback) sits on his doughy good ole
boy ass and tells the fellas you probably just saw some hippies
killing a dog and overreacting to it. The gang insists on going to
Amarillo and give this sample of dirt with the victim's blood to the
authorities while the girls have lifted a few books on the occult
from the local library. SHAME!!!
With the Satanists in hot pursuit of
our foursome (didn't mean for that to sound dirty) Frank and
Roger buy a couple of splatter guns to defend themselves.
Will anyone come to their rescue? Will
the Satanists raise the dark lord and master? Will Lara Parker
regret being in a Satanist movie?
A few comments on the movie now.
Writer Wes Bishop appears as Deputy
Dave and the director Jack Starrett was the gas station attendant
towards the end of the flick. Lara Parker used to be roomies with
Jane Fonda when they were attending Vassar College.
Jack Starrett replaced Lee Frost when
Head of Fox Alan Ladd Jr was less than satisfied with the dailies and
demanded the footage be re-shot so most Lee's work was in the trash.
This was in theatres 7 days after JAWS was released. Bad timing
fellas.
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| Leatherface is sporting a new look. Good for him. |
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