| Werewolves on Wheels |  | Actors: Steve Oliver, D.J. Anderson, Gene Shane, Billy Gray, Gray Johnson
Studio: Dark Sky Films
Category: DVD
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 65,302
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 79 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D8114D
ISBN: 0788607162
UPC: 030306811499
EAN: 9780788607165
ASIN: B000BT96UA
Theatrical Release Date: October 1971
Release Date: February 28, 2006
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Description
The Devil's Advocates - an outlaw gang of Harley-riding hellions led by Adam (Stephen Oliver of "Motor Psycho" and "Peyton Place" fame) and his ol' lady Helen (D.J. Anderson) - troll the dusty highways of the American Southwest in search of the next great kick, whether it be sex, drugs, or violence. After dispatching a pair of rednecks unfriendly to their lifestyle, the Advocates run roughshod over a gas station before taking to the road again, where they encounter a cloistered sect of Satanic monks led by high priest One (Severn Darden). A mass-drugging, a ritual sacrifice, a topless snake-dance, and a scene-clearing fistfight ensue, but it's too late: the spell has been cast, and two shall become… Werewolves on Wheels!Equal parts road movie biker pic and black magic monster flick, this cross-genre film marked the directorial debut of Michel Levesque, art designer on the Russ Myers films "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-vixens" and "Up!" Also starring Billy Gray (TV's "Father Knows Best") and pop singer Barry McGuire, "Werewolves on Wheels" defies classification. Is it art? Is it exploitation? The answer is a resounding yes.
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Mediocre biker/horror film. December 30, 2009
S. Spears (Florence, MA)
I rented this film on DVD recently. There's not much to it. It's a biker film from the early 70s, and there's nothing particularly special about it. The bikers here, are all stereotypical Neanderthals. They're shown hassling innocent folks in remote towns, guzzling beer, doing drugs, and indulging in constant sexual escapades.
The werewolf angle, is the only thing that makes this movie different from other biker flicks. When a biker's girlfriend is cursed by monks who turn out to be devil worshipers, the biker gang soon realizes that she starts acting strange. Trouble follows, as the bikers start getting killed one by one, by what they suspect may not be a human enemy.
This film is more silly than scary. The werewolf costumes look tacky, and poorly put together. The special effects are amusingly cheesy, even by B movie standards. You may roll around on the floor laughing at this movie, but it's doubtful that you'd find it the least bit frightening. Another early 70s film called The Deathmaster, was much better at combining the elements of horror, and hippies/bikers. That film is much more worth your while, than Werewolves On Wheels is.
 Much better than most of it's ilk in content and packaging December 7, 2009
Grapey Grimes (Cincy, OH)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was entertained by this movie in spite of the flaws that come with 70's grindhouse B Movies.
I like werewolf pictures as well as biker flicks, so this movie interested me greatlt; I wasnt disappointed. Movies of this genre can sometimes be guilty of false advertising. For example the movie Hell's Belles, which was not, as the title would suggest, a biker chick movie, or Chain Gang Women, which was not a women in prison flick. Here though, you get just what the title suggests and more; Werewolf bikers and a big dose of 70's satanism.
Yeah there are the ever present moments which either make you wince or scratch your head, but overall, this was an entertaining flick. The music is great, the cinematography is suprisingly good (lots of creative and interesting shots here), and the main character seems to be acting naturally (in other words; his natural real-life personality seems to be very present). I've seen a blue-million 70's grindhouse flicks and this is one of the better ones you can find. You may not be scared while viewing this, but you will probably laugh a lot.
The presentation is great; widescreen and taken from a good print. If youve seen a lot of this kind of thing, and have had your fair share of cheap/shoddy transfers (usually from a beat up VHS) be assured that this is a superior product in a market full of rip-offs.
 Werewolves On Wheels May 24, 2009
Steven R. Gallant (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
An old B Movie brought back to life.A Biker Gang gets involved with the Occult and then well you guess what happens next. A good flick to watch at a party and laugh at.
Best Werewolf -Biker Film I've ever seen! January 8, 2008
Peter Huston (Adrift in the sea of life)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Okay, truth is I thought it'd be really cool to give this film a five star review for no other reason than that it'd give me a chance to use that spiffy one-note joke headline. Okay, it's a low-budget, drive-in quality biker movie with an especially silly premise. However, if that's what you want then it delivers. I found that after one unsuccessful attempt to watch the film I needed alcohol to make it through, but I did, and, well, you know what? Well, I'm a better person for having done so. And then I watched it again, with a friend. Truthfully, for a 1970s biker film this one wasn't bad. And the commentary track was fun too. Definitely a beer and pretzels movie, but if you're actually interested enough in this sort of film to be here reading this, well, I'd say this delivers what it promises.
OK, but not as much fun as I expected September 1, 2007
Vorthog (Ontario, Canada)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This movie sounded like it would be a lot of off-beat fun and just my style -- a bizarre blend of the horror and biker movie genres. But unfortunately I ended up kind of disappointed with the overall result.
The movie starts out promisingly enough. We find a typical motorcycle gang of the era cruisin' down the highway to the sound of a great original soundtrack (reminds me of The Band or Grateful Dead). After raising some hell at a gas station, they carouse their way to the vicinity of an isolated and mysterious cult's temple. The cult has in mind using one of the bikers' babes for some kind of strange ritual. This provides us with the coolest scene in the movie, as said mesmerized babe proceeds to give us an eyeful of her nudie snake dance, once again to the sound of the movie's fabulous soundtrack which really adds to this scene. Naturally the bikers bust in just in the nick of time to rescue her, but not before being cursed by the cultists.
Up to this point, I was quite enjoying the movie. But from here on, the movie seems to rapidly go downhill. The gang decides to head out to the desert to "get their heads together". This is when mysterious attacks of some kind of "wild animal" begin picking off members of the gang, one by one. But the pace of the movie at this point really slows right down and becomes quite tedious. It just seems to drag on and on till the inevitable ending.
And worst of all, I found this DVD's cover art quite misleading. I would like to warn you that there is actually only ONE werewolf ever seen riding a motorcycle in the entire movie, NOT a whole gang as the cover would seem to suggest. In fact, this DVD also includes commentary from the movie's writer and director, and the writer himself says that the film's whole gimmick is "you only give 'em one werewolf at the end of the movie". It seems that someone else had been considering making this movie, but was planning to give the audience a whole gang of werewolves on motorcycles. But the makers of this film felt that approach was all wrong.
I totally disagree. I think this movie would have been 100 times better with a whole gang of werewolves on motorcycles as promised on the cover. Instead I ended up feeling massively cheated and ripped off by the purposely deceiving cover art.
As usual, Blue Underground have done a superb job restoring this obscure b-classic. The picture is very fine indeed. The commentary from the writer and director is quite fun, as we find out behind-the-scenes details that really reflect the low-budget moviemaking spirit of the times (-- like how most of the cast was stoned out of their minds most of the time!) In addition, there is also a poster and still gallery.
But unfortunately it is the movie itself in this case which I found not quite up to scratch. Simply put, beyond the one really cool scene which I briefly described above, there is not much here worth seeing. I guess that's why this movie has (deservedly) remained in obscurity all these years.
Hey, now there's an idea! Instead of Hollywood wasting millions making pathetically poor remakes of great movies like it has for the past 15 years or so, why not take movies like this that had a great basic concept but poor execution, and turn them into the truly great movies they should have been?
Naw....that would make too much sense. ;)
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