Skinheads (1989)
6/10
Low rent action thriller with guest star Chuck Connors
24 September 2017
Warning: Spoilers
SKINHEADS is a fun little independent action thriller in which some innocent youths are pursued by a crazed gang of Neo-Nazis with murder in mind. It has a rural setting and is very similar in look and feel to the equally low rent and cheesy '80s slasher, MEMORIAL VALLEY MASSACRE. The heroes are a nondescript bunch here and don't have much presence, but the Nazi types are hilarious goons, slow-witted in the extreme.

SKINHEADS offers plenty of cheap action in the form of fist fights, shoot-outs, and endless chase sequences. It's one of those films where the good guys manage to escape by the skin of their teeth time and again. The violence is too cheesy to take seriously, but I enjoyed this regardless; it's goofy and fun. An ageing Barbara Bain plays one of the victims, while the great Chuck Connors has a great late-stage role as a hermit type who brings his shotgun out to play against the Nazi scum.
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