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Satan's Sadists [VHS]

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The movie starts promisingly with a couple indulged in petting suddenly interrupted by a gang of bikers. They drug the girl and rape her, then set the forcibly drugged and drunk couple in their car and roll the car over the edge of a cliff.
And the action never stops in this fine drive-in classic biker movie dubbed by producer Sam SHERMAN as the "CITIZEN KANE of biker movies". Well, I don't agree to that (in my view the best biker film of all time is the Spanish THE MAD FOXES), but SATAN`S SADISTS is great fun nevertheless.
The further plot concerns a former marine hitchhiking through the California desert, who is offered a lift by a middle-aged couple, a cop and his wife on second honeymoon. They decide to have a meal at a roadside diner. Suddenly the biker gang arrive at the diner! You can probably guess, what happens next: the bikers make trouble, molesting the waitress and harrass the cop's wife, prompting the cop to draw a revolver. Things get nasty, resulting in the policeman's wife getting raped (unfortunately we don't get to see too much nudity here) and the death of the cop, his wife and the diner's owner. The ex-marine and the waitress escape in the desert, killing two bikers in the process. One guy meets a particularly nasty end by being drowned in the toilet! The furious bikers give chase and the couple must fight for their life...

WOW! They don't make movies like that anymore. SATAN`S SADISTS is a sleaze masterpiece, full of violence, nudity, violent sex and drug abuse. The film is rather anti-establishment, like many movies of the period. And the characters are really cool! Sure, the ex-marine is a bit boring as well as his new found girlfriend, the waitress. But the bikers deliver. Particularly Russ TAMBLYN is great as the cool but psychopathic gang's boss Anchor. He delivers a nice anti-establishment speech before shooting the cop and the other victims at the diner. And his accomplices are a rather weird bunch! Two of the gang members are handicapped, a biker is one-eyed (but wears sunglasses nonetheless), another even needs a hearing aid (!). The only concern of the bikers seems to be sex and getting stoned. And the dialogue is sometimes over the top - like when the bikers encounter three girls in the desert, one of them sunbathing topless, which prompts one biker to remark "She is keeping her milk warm."
Oh yeah, I really love this movie.

The DVD itself is filled with lots of extra features. First, there is an introduction to the movie vy producer Sam SHERMAN, who talks about how cool the film is and that it has gained a cult following worldwide. This segment however looks like it was shot 100 years ago.
Producer SHERMAN also appears in an interesting interview. This guy knows some stories to tell and it is fun to listen to him. The producer also provided an audiocommentary on which I can not comment, because I did not listen to it and I am generally not a fan of audiocommentaries. However I did listen to the radio interview with Regina CARROL, wife of director Al ADAMSON and staring in SATAN`S SADISTS as "freak-out girl". It is a promotional piece and again fun to listen to. There is also a gallery of behind-the-scenes photographs, presented in a way, as if they were shown in a drive-in theatre.
Then there is the film's trailer, which is outstanding. It starts with a disclaimer: THE SHOCKING SCENES YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE ARE NOT SUGGESTED FOR THE WEAK OR IMMATURE. IF YOU CANNOT TAKE IT, WE ADVISE YOU TO NOW PATRONIZE THE CONCESSION STAND OR LOOK AWAY FROM THE SCREEN DURING THIS PREVIEW OF "SATAN'S SADISTS". The trailer promotes the film with the tagline A REBELLION OF HUMAN GARBAGE! Seeing is believing.
There are also 3 TV teaser trailers for the film as well as four additional trailers for other films, all directed by Al ADAMSON: DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (trashy beyond belief, only for diehard trash film fans), the slightly better zombie romp BLOOD OF GHASTLY HORROR, ANGELS WILD WOMEN (a promising looking exploitation flick) and GIRLS FOR RENT (titled erronously I SPIT ON YOUR CORPSE on the trailer menue) starring XXX actress Georgina SPELVIN of THE DEVIL IN MRS. JONES fame.
A great disc!

If you like entertaining, violent, politically incorrect B-movies, buy it! You won't be disappointed.

This 60's biker movie is a lot of fun. Rampaging biker gang with psycho leader, older couple on vacation, good-guy marine and the young waitress - priceless. I could have done without the rape scenes, but the camera didn't dwell on them too long.

The acting really couldn't be much better. Excellent characters. Apparently filmed in 11 days. Doesn't get much better for b-biker flicks.

You know, I tried, but I can't make myself see anything redeemable in any of the bad guys...lending this movie no moral complexity or statement about society almost at all. Any feeling of pity you might have for the mental illness, mental deficiency, psychological problems, or disability of all the characters is completely shot when they rape several women in drawn out, annoying, and uncomfortable rape scenes.
I'm a fan of horror movies, and a huge consumer of B-movies in general. Rape scenes in which the women seem to like it cross the line into unwatchable for me.
I'd have to reccomend you watch Hard Rock Zombies instead.

not fair, not fair. Citizen Cane is an alright little picture, good for a sunday afternoon i suppose. But this... this thing is a masterpiece! Everything that's good about being young, male, and stupid is right here. Poppin' pills, smokin' grass, camping out, loving the ladies, spooking the "townfolk"... all set to a blistering backbeat of fuzzed out psychedelic instro madness! I dare you to not at least scratch your head in confusion over how wonderful this thing is. true blue eye candy. beautiful women, far out dialogue, almost threatening bikers, and some great tunes. the dvd packs more features that you could imagine for such an obscure film. trailers, tv spots, photo galleries, behind the scenes, commentaries etc... an excellent buy. a movie you'll want to share with your grandchildren. trust me, baby.

This is the most overrated film I've seen in a while. I hoped for a violent, sexist, stark, disturbing biker film, and I got cheese. The motorcycles are awful, some of them are like dirt bikes and others no self-respecting biker would ever ride. The Satans colors look like iron-on patches. The violence is very antiseptic, with very litte gore, almost no nudity, and no realism. The plot and continuation are pathetic; could someone explain to me how the manniken-haired "good guy" got up that mountain so quick at the end to fight Firewater, or better yet, why? Also, the picture and sound quality are abyssmal, rendering whole sections of the movie unwatchable. A total waste of time and money, and completely misrepresented by anyone who gives it a good review.

Al Adamson's best film - BY FAR!! A lot of Al's work was patch work schlock combining footage from unfinished films, but this was a project that was finished from begining to end. Although not as technicaly polished as EASY RIDER from the same year it sure has dated a lot better and their is not a dull moment in the film. Russ Tamblyn and Scott Brady help give this better acting than other Adamson films and it is the most violent and nastiest biker film i have seen (their is also some dark humor). so if your a fan of horror/exploitation films this is a must see!!

If you enjoy a good biker flick well this one doesn't quite do it. A group of bikers named Satan's Sadists love to stir up trouble for no reason. The real fun begins about 20 minutes into the movie. A cop (Scott Brady) & his wife Nora are traveling down the highway & they pick up a hitchhiker. The guy is an ex marine just back from Vietnam. Things are going ok until they stop at a cafe for gas & lunch. The bikers stop in too & cause all kinds of trouble. The marine Johnny & the waitress Tracy (Jackie Taylor) escape & spend the rest of the movie killing the Sadists one by one. How did the producers get away with that scene at the cafe? I mean the biker who got his head flushed down a toilet & drowned from toilet water? Yuck!!!!!!! That's a disgusting thing to show in any kind of movie! Come on we all have enemies in life but that's taking things a bit too far! If not for this scene I could've rated this flick 4 stars instead of 3. By the way check out biker babe Gina played by Regina Carrol. She's one good reason to see this & she's producer Sam Sherman's future wife. And the dvd extras are very good too.

Typical of the genre! Lot's of action with a typical view of bikers in the 60's.

Despite what anybody says this movie sucks. Satan's Sadists, the world's most unthreatening motorcycle gang (all seven of `em), enter a remote roadside café and begin harassing the five people inside. Two bikers die in this skirmish one drowns in a toilet bowl and the other by a fatal hit to the face with a mirror (!). Three customers die, all shot. The two remaining victims run off into the desert. The Sadists abandon their bikers and chase them on foot, so much for a motorcycle movie.

Lots of talking takes place but the Sadists do find three females in the desert, get them on LSD and have a darkly shot snooze, I mean, love fest. One of the customers sneaks around and kills one bad guy by throwing a rattlesnake at him, another he stabs to death and another he pushes down a hill. The other two bikers managed by their own stupidity to kill themselves. Highly not recommended unless your looking for a good laugh.

Thanks to SATAN'S SADISTS being released within weeks of the Tate-LaBianca murders this $50,000 turd suckered the public out of $10M according to "Son of the Golden Turkey Award" by Michael Medved.

This is one horrible f***in' movie. It is one of the most boring, tepid, lame films I have ever endured. This is the kind of film that Tarantino and Rodriguez were paying homage to in their recent film Grindhouse. Why would they like trash like this? It's not entertaining, it's not fun, it's just stupid and ugly. There are some decent biker films out there (Savage Seven and Hell's Angels on Wheels are 2 examples), but this is just the bottom of the NYC sewer system. Save your time and money...