I’m always on the lookout for the next great badass biker babe movie. Well, after watching Hellcat’s Revenge, I guess I’m still looking.
When the leader of the all-female motorcycle gang, The Hellcats is murdered, the newly elected leader, Kat (Lisa Neeld), hits the streets looking for the killer. After busting a few heads, she is devastated to learn her main squeeze Snake (writer/director Len Kabasinski) may be behind the murder.
Hellcat’s Revenge is one of those Good News/Bad News types of movies. For everything it does right, it inevitably makes a misstep (or two) to immediately erase whatever goodwill it’s just earned. The plot is basic, but that’s all it needs to be. The babes are more badass than beautiful, but that lends a touch of realism, I guess. The assorted shootouts and fight scenes are OK, but the finale is really choppy. There’s not a lot of nudity, but just enough to ensure you don’t get bored. And even when you do start to get a little bored, the scant running time (seventy-nine minutes) helps, and the pacing is relatively brisk.
For all its merits, Hellcat’s Revenge has the dubious distinction of being the only female biker movie (at least that I’ve seen) in which NO ONE rides a motorcycle. There are scenes where Neeld gets on a motorcycle. There are scenes where Neeld gets off a motorcycle. However, there are no scenes of her or ANY of the other cast members (male or female) actually riding the bikes. Heck, there aren’t even shots of stunt doubles riding the bikes. What the Hell?!?
It's a shame too because Neeld certainly looks the part. I hadn’t heard of her before, but she isn’t bad in the lead. Deborah Dutch, the B Movie Queen from all those Jim Wynorski movies, was the only name I recognized in the cast. She has a good scene where runs around a strip club twirling her tassels, but neither she nor Neeld get naked. (That’s OK because plenty of assorted strippers do.)
Kabasinski was also responsible for the not-bad Swamp Zombies duology.
A sequel followed two years later.
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