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SATAN'S SADISTS (1969)

Directed by Al Adamson.

With: Russ Tamblyn, Scott Brady, Kent Taylor, John "Bud" Cardos, Regina Carrol, Robert Dix, Greydon Clark, William Bonner, Bambi Allen. (Independent-International/Sam Sherman).

The late Al Adamson made some silly films in his time, but none sillier than this off-the-wall movie about mean bikers who take over a small town. Sure, you've seen that plot before, but never like this. A steady stream of dumb dialogue, cheesy music, and some of the strangest sexual innuendo in action cinema will keep you howling.

There's Russ Tamblyn, as the gang's nasty leader, in his "greatest role since West Side Story", according to the ads. Tamblyn gives an outrageously silly performance, cramming food and drugs down people's throats and saying things like, "I got friends who ain't got hate inside them. Their only crime is growing their hair long, smoking grass and looking at the stars at night! And what do you do? You bust down their doors and you bust on their heads, man! Dumb-ass cops!"

John Cardos, a future schlock director, appears as an Indian biker with an unnatural-looking mohawk, but the most noticeable member of the cast is Adamson's long-time wife Regina Carrol, billed as "The Freak-Out Girl". She holds a baby's bottle to her breast and intones, "How about a little of THIS, baby?" while the camera zooms in on the bottle's nipple. At least the film moves at a reasonable pace, unlike many of Adamson's interminably slow horror films (Blood of Ghastly Horror, Blood of Dracula's Castle, etc.) and is - in a peculiar way - entertaining. True-crime buffs should note that much of the film was shot at the Spahn Movie Ranch at the time Charles Manson's group lived there. This fact was exploited in the ads by the tasteful tagline "Filmed in the exact location that the Tate hippie killers lived their wild experiences!" Groovy, man.