Really Surprised!

Load of rubbish!!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

I feel bad for not giving this a lower score seeing as how it has such a low rating. The movie is about well, a strangler of teenagers and how he, well, strangles them. The biggest fault with this movie is that there's almost no screen time at all devoted to building up the suspense of the killer appearing. We get this dumb subplot about two brothers who feel guilty about stealing or borrowing a bike or they used to be thieves or something like that. I guess the movie was just trying to capture the youth at this time. The credits said 1965, but according to this website, it was 1964.Who cares? They probably didn't even bother to get the date right! Even for a short movie, it seems to have a lot of padding. Most of these stories don't go anywhere. I guess I will give it a little credit for trying to be realistic. Of course, I didn't grow up at this time. It is kind of amusing to see some of these obnoxious characters and realize how our standards have changed. *1/2

Got news for you.In 50 years, you and your hip popular culture will look even more dated that this movie does now.Your grandkids will laugh and cringe as they see the dialog and fashions that seem trendy today.Time out-modes all.On second thought, it's unlikely movies will be watched in 50 years.They will seem impossibly slow--and possibly retarded--to the hyper-accelerated brains of our descendants.Ultimately, there will be so much culture that whole swathes of it will be discarded permanently.But then I digress.

This was actually a quaint and funny movie. Of course, the title doesn't make sense as the strangler isn't a teenager nor is he limited to the strangulation of teenagers, and Mike and the bots of MST3K give it that extra something, but I liked how it all took place in one small town with only a few settings, and the loud music that plays almost all the time. (Sorry for that run on sentence there.) I liked that it took place in a tiny town because it almost seems like the film takes place in another dimension or another planet, man. It seems like the kind of place you would go if you wanted to escape from the big city. Of course, you'd have to face the teenage strangler, but it would be no worse than city life. Oh, and whiny, girly Mikey was the best part, of course! "A..And he didn't steal no bike, neither! I...I did!"

Like many others, I saw this on MST3K (albeit a long time ago). It was hilarious, and I'm sure it's pretty funny on it's own, too. The plot has something to do with a teenage strangler, a new kid with a bad rep, his bike-stealing mongoloid younger brother, and a malt shop sock hop. What I remember most is the movie being so colourful that it was just pretty to look at despite what happened on screen, and of course the memorable acting of young Mikey, who was related to the director in some way to earn his role. Features the "hit" single "Yipe Stripes" and a cheat ending.