Angels Hard As They Come. Great title, huh?
Another notch in our belt of classic biker movies. Tonight's was...different. It was the same, but different. It had a truly sinister edge to it like Satan's Sadists. And some particularly good acting, given the context. Plenty of incredible choppers, and some really nice boobs.
Biker gang terrorizes hippies. Biker gang tries to run a train on a hippy chick and things go south for everyone involved. Bikers vs. bikers. Weed, LSD, rape, silly headgear, hippies, and groovy music. Desert scenes, trikes, sissy bars, and switchblades. It's all there, brother.
Plenty of gratuitous scenes of choppers riding through canyon roads and open desert. It's good shit.
The sketchiest part of this movie was one of the M/C presidents. He was a Manson stand-in. This film came out a year after Tate's murder, they literally reference the murder in the movie, and the "bad guy" prez looks like Manson. Not righteous, man.
I don't know if the transfer we watched is solely responsible for the extremely high contrast and darkness, but yeah...the cinematography left something to be desired.
Oh, did I mention Gary Busey plays a wimpy hippy?
You can watch the whole flick on YouTube above. We streamed it on Amazon Prime this evening. I wouldn't watch this as an introductory biker flick. But if you're a connoisseur of the genre, then it's a must-see.
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