Cult Cuts Volume 27 (Canadian Cuts/Return to the Video Store #1)
#1/4: Rolling Vengeance (1987)
(8/10): B-Movie fans and Monster Truck fans rejoice as this movie fills the void of being the most awesome Monster Truck movie.
This Canuxploitation action/revenge film is about a young man who lives with his family and delivers beer as a trucker with his dad to a local barkeep/titty bar owner who is, along with his many illegitimate sons, pretty sleazy and piggish.
After our protagonist's father shows him his new truck after getting back from work one day, the following day his mother and two younger siblings take off in the car to go to town. Being alone the illegitimate sons of the barkeep attempt to break into the car and assume mom and then begin to persue them down the road side by side when a trucker then ends the chase by accidentally striking her vehicle killing all three of them in the process.
Afterwards him and especially his father are enraged that the brothers only get off with a 300 dollar fine for driving intoxicated and were not sentenced for being the cause of their families deaths. He then goes for a drink and while there they then start a bar fight with the brothers.
The next day the brothers then drop bricks from the overpass causing a big crash and they leave the father hospitalized. After that it was the final straw, the son goes and completely remodels the truck into a Monster Truck with spewing flames, massive wheels and a drill with the intent to take them out as the law certainly won't be the ones to do so.
The biggest thing that makes this movie so great is by far the Truck itself, its completely done practically and it looks like an absolute beast and the carnage and destruction is just immaculate.
The main story is decently gripping, it's not winning any awards but it's definitely a more interesting vehicle driven escapist film than F&F, but let's not get carried away here.
It's entertaining and the film has a stronger narrative than it has any right to have but let's be honest here, we're all here for the Monster Truck.
#1/4: Rolling Vengeance (1987)
(8/10): B-Movie fans and Monster Truck fans rejoice as this movie fills the void of being the most awesome Monster Truck movie.
This Canuxploitation action/revenge film is about a young man who lives with his family and delivers beer as a trucker with his dad to a local barkeep/titty bar owner who is, along with his many illegitimate sons, pretty sleazy and piggish.
After our protagonist's father shows him his new truck after getting back from work one day, the following day his mother and two younger siblings take off in the car to go to town. Being alone the illegitimate sons of the barkeep attempt to break into the car and assume mom and then begin to persue them down the road side by side when a trucker then ends the chase by accidentally striking her vehicle killing all three of them in the process.
Afterwards him and especially his father are enraged that the brothers only get off with a 300 dollar fine for driving intoxicated and were not sentenced for being the cause of their families deaths. He then goes for a drink and while there they then start a bar fight with the brothers.
The next day the brothers then drop bricks from the overpass causing a big crash and they leave the father hospitalized. After that it was the final straw, the son goes and completely remodels the truck into a Monster Truck with spewing flames, massive wheels and a drill with the intent to take them out as the law certainly won't be the ones to do so.
The biggest thing that makes this movie so great is by far the Truck itself, its completely done practically and it looks like an absolute beast and the carnage and destruction is just immaculate.
The main story is decently gripping, it's not winning any awards but it's definitely a more interesting vehicle driven escapist film than F&F, but let's not get carried away here.
It's entertaining and the film has a stronger narrative than it has any right to have but let's be honest here, we're all here for the Monster Truck.