{"id":44624,"date":"2016-05-04T12:24:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T11:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=44624"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:15:09","slug":"mini-skirt-biker-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/mini-skirt-biker-mob\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikesploitation: The Mini Skirt Biker Mob"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time was when the mix of girls and biker gangs was truly threatening.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At least that\u2019s what you\u2019d be led to believe if you were a viewer of Bikesploitation flicks of the late sixties.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an absurd genre. At the high end there are of course biker films like the The Wild One<\/em> and Easy Rider<\/em> – but between that twenty year pole of high points there are many nadirs. And The Mini Skirt Mob is surely the maddest biker flick to ever exploit a subcult.<\/p>\n

The narrative is pretty easy to fathom. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Shayne, the leader of a Honda-riding biker gang known as the Mini-Skirt Mob, has been jilted by her lover, cowboy star Jeff Logan who has married straight-laced Connie.<\/p>\n

Shayne enlists the rest of her biker gang to help her break up the newlyweds and get Jeff back – even if that means killing him in the process.<\/p>\n

Her revenge escalates until her sister Edie is killed by a Molotov cocktail and Shayne finds herself hanging by a thread over a deadly chasm. Should Connie let go before Jeff returns with the police?<\/p>\n

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Rest assured the film is replete not only a smattering of Triumphs and cool little Japanese runabouts – but is also chock full of short skirted chicks out on the road causing havoc to man, beast and Jesus freak. There are of course enough gratuitous pseudo-lewd sequences to make a Carry On enthusiast blush.<\/p>\n

But this particular flick is put together with the kind of truly bad acting that puts it out there amongst the worst.<\/p>\n

The film geeks out there among you may spot one of the great Hollywood cult actors in there – a man by the name of Harry Dean Stanton.<\/a><\/p>\n

Worth checking out, if only for morbid curiosity about how this stuff ever got made. <\/strong><\/p>\n