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    Released by: ABC DVD
    Released in: 2003
    Director: Paul Grau
    Cast: Robert O'Neal, Erik Falk, Helmi Sigg
    Year: 1981
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    The Movie:

    Co-produced by Erwin C. Dietrich (best known for producing a few of the prolific Jess Franco's better known films), Mad Foxes is a film that truly has not a single redeeming quality to it. Simply trash for trash's sake, it's an absolutely unabashed mixture of sex, violence and naked kickboxing that sadly we're unlikely to ever see again. Luckily, we've got an uncut DVD from ABC to make sure that we don't ever have to go without it again.

    The hero of the story is Hal, and we find him out wining and dining his lady friend on the eve of her eighteenth birthday. Hal is trying to get her drunk so that he can get into her pants, so I guess in that respect he's not so much a hero at all. Let's call him a protagonist instead. Anyway, after an evening of boozing it up, he drives her back to his place to get it on, but unluckily for them, a gang of leather-clad Nazi bikers gets in their way. Hal's girlfriend ends up getting raped and it's up to him to take down these scumbags once and for all, cause Hal's just not having any of that.

    Anyway, with a mind full of vengeance and a hot rod full of gas, Hal heads over to his kickboxing friends' place and talks them into taking justice to the street. They all head over to the bikers' hang out and a poorly choreographed fight scene ensues, culminating in one of the kick-boxer guys cutting off the lead bikers member and force feeding it to him.

    Once this nastiness is out of the way, Hal heads off to his parents' house and picks up a foxy hitchhiker along the way (who is fresh from a romp on the beach with her boyfriend who she leaves at the curb). The two head over to ma and pa's place to relax, but of course, those dastardly bikers turn up again and all hell breaks loose. Hal's folks end up dead and of course he gets even more pissed off. During all of this, a lot of people die, there's a whole whack of gratuitous sex and nudity (a fair bit of which is male and full frontal), and nothing even for an instant really makes a whole lot of sense. Oh, and the theme song is by Krokus. Remember Krokus? You probably don't unless you were into 80s metal. I was into 80s metal so I remember Krokus. Anyway, that's beside the point.

    This movie is nuts. It's out of control. You really just have to see it for yourself, because no matter how many zany, low budget, bad movies you may have under your belt, nothing can prepare you for the sheer ineptitude of this film. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.


    Video/Audio/Extra:

    Taken from an un-projected print, Mad Foxes is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85.1 and is enhanced for anamorphic TV sets. It's pretty amazing just how good this film looks. With the exception of a small chunk of film amounting to less than a minute where there is a black scratch running down the screen, this is more or less a perfect print. Colors are bright and lively and blacks are rich and deep and there are no compression or artifact issues to speak of.

    The Dolby Digital Mono soundtrack, in English, sounds just fine. It's nice and clear and gets the job done quite nicely. Every horribly dubbed expletive laden sentence comes through nice and clear, as does every phony sound effect and of course, the theme song from Krokus.

    While the cover may tout this release as a special edition, all we have on here are a few trailers for other Dietrich productions - Rolls Royce Baby (featuring a very naked Lina Romay), Island Women (starring Brigette Lahaie) She Devils Of The SS, in addition to the trailer for the feature itself, which you should watch after the movie if you haven't seen it before, as it's got a lot of spoilers in it.

    The Final Word:

    Depending on your sensibilities, you might die laughing or you might be appalled, but you certainly won't forget this movie. It's truly one of a kind.

    • sukebanboy
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      sukebanboy
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      sukebanboy commented
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      Sorry to drag this one out from the depths...but I watched this one again today and it is TRULY is one of my favorite films of all time....

      It has everything..and is TOTALLY BONKERS!!!
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