Let me tell you that I have seen flicks in the schlock zone were you are holding the fast forward button in your hand. But this one I watched without touching the fast forward. I heard a lot of this flick but still it works. If you are going to watch it you must be a geek into grindhouse. This even doesn't come near into the field of exploitation. It was made with an ultra low budget and was the last movie from Ray Dennis Steckler to appear in a drive in. Before the seventies short movies were shown at grindhouses and drive ins. But this one clocked in at 50 minutes. The distributor told Ray that it never would be seen if he doesn't make it longer than 60 minutes to make it a full feature. So he did, he made it a 70 minutes feature filled with shots from a rodeo...So this must be one of the few movies were the director's cut was shorter than the theatrical version. So you can watch the 50 minute flick without missing something. There is blood but on a low base and some death scene's are really unbelievable bad acted. But again due the short time it takes to watch it I was never bored, the quality of this 40 year old flick is excellent, a few drops, that's all. Sometimes it's a bit too dark in the night scene's but the sound is good, and the editing also. But still you can see it's low budget, for example, the chooper appears in daylight without anybody seeing him coming. It's in the dessert, at an abandoned house. The acting isn't that bad, sometimes a bit theatrical. No shadows appear from camera's or sound equipment on the set, that's a positive point too. The DVD is easy to find, and is cheap these days, but lucky as I was, I've got mine signed from the director Ray himself just before he passed away in 2009 thanks to some geeks I know in the states. Be advised that this is one of his better flicks, the younger his movies were made the worser they got, Steckler pads out the running time with shots of parades, rodeos, etc. Also he makes use of footage more than once, like no one would notice, like bar scenes, women dancing scenes, etc. You really must love this schlockfest to watch it.
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