1975 - RACE WITH THE DEVIL, entertaining B movie with Satanists and Warren Oates

Finally the truth that good liberals have known all along, southwest Texas is crawling with devil worshiping satanists who aren't above sacrificing a virgin now and then.

Into this mix comes two couples on their vacation in their very cool  new Winnebago which has all the modern conveniences among them a color TV and a microwave.  The film also has a couple of seriously iconic actors, Peter Fonda and Warren Oates.

The director is B movie pro Jack Starrett who makes sure there is lots of action and that at some point in the film, the female leads will show up in tiny swimsuits.

This film is essentially a car chase movie with the red neck devil worshippers in pursuit of the Winnebago after Oates and Fonda accidentally witness one of their satanical rituals.  The stunt work with the cars and Winnebago is very impressive and this is a car chase using a Winnebago of all things.

But really this film is about watching a couple of cool guy actors like Oates and Fonda deliver the goods in an entertaining B movie.

88 minutes

1970 - THE LOSERS, "Get It On" in Vietnam

Thoughtful exploitation trash extremely well assembled.  The Losers probably said more about the arrogant United States attitudes to nation building than Apocalypse Now or The Deer Hunter ever could.

Hired by the CIA to get an American spy out of Cambodia, a bike game parties, trashes, shoots and blunders its way through Vietnam and Cambodia, if that isn't a metaphor for the United States military interventions in other countries, then I don't know what is.

The head of the bike gang is William "Big Bill" Smith who is so macho he wears a very dangling earring in one of his ears.  The rest of cast is an assortment of slime ball bike gang members  who depressingly would probably be very comfortable serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. 

Directed by exploitation director Jack Starrett using the Roger Corman formula of a little sex, a little action and a little social commentary, there are enough fights in this film for about 10 biker movies.  Since this is a low budget exploitation film, the battles and bike stunts are the real thing. 

95  minutes baby.