Werewolves on Wheels
Werewolves on Wheels
R | 11 August 1971 (USA)
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A biker gang visits a monastery where they encounter black-robed monks engaged in worshipping Satan. When the monks try to persuade one of the female bikers, Helen, to become a satanic sacrifice the bikers smash up the monastery and leave. The monks have the last laugh, though, as Helen, as a result of the satanic rituals, is now possessed and at night changes into a werewolf, with dire results for the biker gang.

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Stevecorp

Don't listen to the negative reviews

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Robert Joyner

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

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Edwin

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

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Darin

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

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Sam Panico

Is a biker movie not enough action for you? What if I told you that a biker gang named The Devil's Advocates happen upon some warlocks and then one of them is bitten by a female werewolf and transforms under the full moon? How's that sound?I literally just told you the entire plot of this movie. Soon after the cult members cast a curse on the biker leader's (Stephen Oliver, who was married to Lana Wood, sister of Natalie Wood and also the star of Motorpsycho and Angels from Hell) girlfriend that makes her turn into a werewolf, she turns him as well. Soon, the bikers are being killed one by one until they see their leader and his girl transform.The bikers head back to the church for revenge, but suddenly stop when they see themselves in the cult lineup.This movie has been sampled by Rob Zombie repeatedly, including the line "We all know how we're going to die, baby. We're gonna crash and burn." It's also better than anything he's done since The Devil's Rejects. Actually, it's probably better than that, too.Real bikers were used for all the stunts in this movie, so it has a real authenticity to it. And the weirdness of the cult's rituals breaks into that so nicely, giving this movie a real air of pure strange. The cult leader, One, is played by Severn Darden, who played Governor Kolp in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes. He's so great in this movie!The soundtrack is also so good. It's very blues country rock with a bit of doom. It's perfect for the action on the screen. This movie gets a very high recommendation!

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BA_Harrison

Werewolves on Wheels is a wonderful title, conjuring up images of snarling wolf-men astride gleaming chopper bikes, the wind whipping through their hair as they ride through the night. Unfortunately, there's nothing remotely like that in this z-grade piece of drive-in crud that blends the popular 70s biker and Satanic horror genres to terrible effect.The film starts with biker gang the Devil's Advocates fighting with rednecks, drinking, smoking dope and generally having a wild time. After a while, they head out towards a strange looking church where they are confronted by monks, who give them bread and wine; when the bikers have finished eating and drinking, they all pass out and the monks conduct a Satanic ritual. One of the biker women gets up and joins in with the ceremony, stripping off and gyrating with a snake and a skull. Then the rest of the bikers wake up, have a scrap with the monks, grab the naked bird and leave.In the desert, the bikers continue with their debauched lifestyle (drinking, loving, repeatedly chanting 'Oobla doobla') until a couple of them turn up dead, seemingly attacked by wild animals. The rest of the film sees the gang building a few fires, drinking some more, arguing, fighting, sleeping, rolling down a sand dune in slow motion, searching for their friend Movie, and collecting wood (for another fire), before a couple of them are finally revealed to be a werewolves (and rather ropey looking ones at that). One of the werewolves does hop onto its bike to be chased by the bikers, but the whole scene is too dark to properly make out what is happening.The terrible ending makes very little sense. Everyone gets dirty faces (Hells Angels with Dirty Faces) and the monks show up for a little more occult nonsense. To be honest, I'd given up trying to follow what was happening long before.

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Neil Welch

An evil biker gang falls out with a bunch of devil-worshipping monks. This film really doesn't deserve a more detailed synopsis than that, and it's certainly not getting one from me.There is a lot of praise for this film on IMDb, so let's consider the good points. The cinematography in this biker/werewolf movie isn't bad (the night scenes, of which there are many, are well lit), there are some decent songs on the soundtrack, and a young lady prances around attractively topless for a couple of minutes. I was 19 in 1971, when this was made, and that last element would have been a major selling point at that moment in history. I still regard it as a plus, but it doesn't count for as much as it once did in a film, if I'm honest.On the negative side, we have a negligible and very familiar story, a poor script, bad acting, and an interminable (and very boring, notwithstanding the jiggling boobies) black magic ritual.So, sorry to be a dissenting voice, but this is actually a load of old rubbish, decently filmed.

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Flixer1957

I caught up with this corker recently, when I picked it up on a well-known Internet site for $5.00. On DVD, enhanced for widescreen TVs. Made by people who probably never expected it to show up on TV anytime, anywhere.WEREWOLVES …opens with a bunch of bikers riding into a gas station in the Far West and terrorizing the locals, or as many locals as the budget could afford. The gang is one of the goofiest ever committed to celluloid; even at their most depraved, they're about as scary as the motorcycle morons in EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE.It should come as no surprise, then, when these geniuses: A) stop off at an isolated "monastery" that sports an evil-looking symbol over the entrance and B) chow down on bread and wine offered by strangers-- scary-looking hooded creeps led by weird-movie icon Severn Darden and C) can't figure out what's going on when, time after time, they camp out for the night and lose several of their number to "wild beasts…."As veteran exploitation fans should expect, there are more Wheels than Werewolves here; the lycanthropes appear briefly, and the photography is so dark it's hard to see them anyway. However, there is some gratuitous nudity courtesy of a fairly attractive biker-babe, not to mention brief but splashy gore scenes. This includes some ahead-of-its-time eyeball violence. There are better werewolf flicks around, but fans of flesh and blood won't go away empty-handed.

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