Simply A Masterpiece

best movie i've ever seen.

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

I had no idea what this movie was even about. This movie was one that I've been wanting to watch for a long time. I was really, really disappointed by the end of the film. There was almost no action until the very end, and even by the end I still didn't understand what the story was about. The MST3K cast made it bearable, but not by much. There were two long scenes of people dancing and drinking, which would have been fine if they didn't last forever. I couldn't hear/understand the dialog at some points. I feel like the music didn't fit very well either. I thought there would be way more action, especially considering it was a biker film. Did the movie even have a resolution? I couldn't tell.

This movie is one of the best bad movies ever I love this one.So over the top cheesiness you got to love the soundtrack its a 60s trippy/Beatles music or something like that!Also I hella dig the characters you got six pack, snake, zombie, and much more out their characters the dialog is cheese perfection you will chuckle a lot man they don't make movies like they did back then this movie is available threw BCI its apart of their Welcome to the grindhouse DVDs on the DVD is this one if course and another exploitation classic Chain Gang Women!!It looks like a lot of people hate this movie I think this movie is to fun to hate how can you not like this movie if your a fan of b-movies and exploitation check it out and don't listen to the haters this is the best movie on the bottom 100!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For those of you who noticed all the people from Red Zone Cuba in this horrid piece of trash movie, that is because this thing was produced and funded by none other than the talentless Tony Cardoza, who funded and 'acted' in all of Coleman Francis's horrible movies, as well. I guess this is the only way that Tony got to be an actor was to pay for the movies to get made, since he had zero talent. He probably put it in the contracts that he got to play a part in the film if he produced it. Put him together with the hideous Gus Trikonis of Sidehackers fame(thus the appearance of Ross Hagen as the main character)to make a movie, and you have a disaster of major proportions in the making. The incomprehensible, drug addled plot is only the beginning of the film's problems. The film used is grainy and watered down looking, there isn't one appealing character in the whole movie, and there are scenes that make no sense and trail off altogether. Lots of them. They make up most of the movie, actually. All one can think is that the film crew, including the director, were buying drugs from the biker gang and taking fistfuls of them before they started shooting. You can watch this thing over and over again, and all you'll get is a headache. It still won't make any more sense than the first time you watched it. At least Sidehackers had the crazed but amusing JC, and Red Zone Cuba had a so-called 'plot' that left you howling with laughter. Hell cats has neither of these things. Or much of anything else, either, except for lots and LOTS of drugs, booze, and scenes of motorcycle riding and chicks in bikinis.

This movie is, of course, awful, but it's important to try to see the good in all things. I would think that if anything this is a great snapshot of biker culture from the late 60s, and offers a good view of "Old School" choppers from that era. It's no "Easy Rider" but it adds to the lexicon. Paul Teutel Sr. and Indian Larry would be proud.For fans of Coleman Francis' "Red Zone Cuba", it's interesting to see all the alumni from that film in this one. RZC's Chastaine plays a biker; the "gallopin' dominoes" mercenary is Hiney; the "I'll run you out of town for changing your tires" sheriff is the hawk-faced sniper in the black suit; one of the posse re-emerges as the proprietor of the Moonfire Inn; and of course, there's Tony Cardoza, trading in his penchant for tossing helpless innocent old men down wells for a paintbrush in the California chapparal. I can't help but think that Coleman himself was somewhere in the film, perhaps behind the scenes. His spirit is certainly there.What this film left me wondering was, "If this is what being a biker is like, how can it possibly be enjoyable?" Lying around in a hot dusty patch of chapparal, stoned? This is fun? It all just seems so dirty and scuzzy and depressing. The scene where the bikers inexplicably toss a trumpet-wielding hippy-friend into a stagnant pond just sort of encapsulates what I imagine the late 60s to be: Dirt, stink, muck, grease, filth, and senseless acts of stupidity. Were the 60s such a time of social change and improvement? I guess in some ways they were -- Civil Rights for minorities comes to mind. But overall, the legacy -- as evidenced by artifacts like "The Hellcats" -- is one of sloth, irresponsibility, carnality, and above all, selfishness. They rebelled against the suit-and-tie world of their parents, but if I had a choice, I'd have lived in the 30s/40s/50s a million times before I had to endure the 60s. No wonder the parents of Baby Boomers were so distressed, and no wonder the children of Baby Boomers are so incredibly screwed-up. I know -- I am one. Thanks, former hippies/bikers/counterculturists -- for nothing!