Motorpsycho
Motorpsycho |
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Technical | |
Type: | Film Black and white |
Alternate title(s): | Rio Vengeance (working title) Motor Mods and Rockers Les Enragés de la Moto (Canada) Le Gang Sauvage (Belgium) Motor-Psycho - Wie Wilde Hengste (Germany) |
Country: | USA |
Release date(s): | August 1965 |
Running time: | 74 minutes |
Language: | English |
Budget: | $38,000 |
Company: | Eve Productions |
Staff | |
Directed by: | Russ Meyer |
Starring: | Haji Arshalouis Aivazian |
Produced by: | Russ Meyer |
Written by: | Russ Meyer William E. Sprague |
Music by: | Igo Kantor Paul Sawtell Bert Shefter |
Cinematography: | Russ Meyer |
Editing by: | Russ Meyer |
Websites and databases | |
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Motorpsycho or Motor Psycho is a 1965 film directed by Russ Meyer.[1] Made just before the better-known Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), the film explores similar themes of sex and violence. This film deals with a male motorcycle gang, unlike the female gang of go-go dancers in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! The film is notable for containing one of the first portrayals of a disturbed Vietnam veteran character.
Plot
The story involves a veterinarian whose wife is raped by a motorcycle gang led by a sadistic Vietnam veteran. After the gang kills an old man, his wife teams up with the veterinarian to hunt down the gang.
Cast
- Haji ... Ruby Bonner[2]
- Alex Rocco ... Cory Maddox
- Stephen Oliver ... Brahmin
- Holle K. Winters ... Gail Mddox
- Joseph Cellini ... Dante
- Thomas Scott ... Slick
- Coleman Francis ... Harry Bonner
- Sharon Lee ... Jessica Fannin
- Steve Masters ... Frank
- Arshalouis Aivazian ... wife
- E.E. Meyer ... sheriff
- George Costello ... doctor
- F. Rufus Owens ... Rufus
- Richard Brummer ... ambulance driver
Legacy
Norwegian band Motorpsycho picked their name after watching this movie in a Russ Meyer triple feature. There was already a band named after Mudhoney and a band named after Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - the other two films on the triple feature - so they used Motorpsycho.
There are references to this film (and Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) in the song "Thunder Kiss '65" by White Zombie.
External links
- Firsching, Robert. Motor Psycho (English). All Movie Guide. Retrieved on August 9, 2008.
References
- ↑ Infobox data from Frasier, David K. (1998). Russ Meyer : The Life and Films : A Biography and A Comprehensive, Illustrated, and Annotated Filmography and Bibliography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co, p. 205-206. ISBN 0-7864-0472-8.
- ↑ Krafsur, Richard P. (1976). "Motorpsycho", The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures; Feature Films 1961-70. New York & London: R.R. Bowker Company. ISBN 0-8352-0440-5.