Loosely inspired by Charles Manson's "family", the film centers around a group of nomadic Satanist hippies who ride into a small town and terrorize the inhabitants. A young girl is badly beaten, and after an old man confronts the group, he is dosed with LSD. A boy then decides to exact revenge and put a stop to the rampage. The boy (who works at a local bakery) feeds the hippies special meat pies laced with blood from a rabid dog. Rabid, hydrophobic and frothing at the mouth, the hippies go berserk and wreak homicidal havoc upon the unwitting town
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Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury | Horace Bones |
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Jadin Wong | Sue-Lin |
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Rhonda Fultz | Molly |
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George Patterson | Rollo |
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Riley Mills | Pete Banner |
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John Damon | Roger Davis |
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Elizabeth Marner-Brooks | Mildred Nash |
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Richard Bowler | Doc Banner |
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Tyde Kierney | Andy |
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Iris Brooks | Blonde Group Member |
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Alex Mann | Shelley |
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Bruno Damon | Rabid Guy |
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Mike Gentry | Rabid Guy |
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David E. Durston | Dr. Oakes |
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Arlene Farber | Sylvia Banner |
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Lynn Lowry | Carrie |
| Director | David E. Durston |
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| Writer | David E. Durston | |
| Producer | Jerry Gross, Henry Kaplan | |
| Musician | Clay Pitts | |
| Photography | Jacques Demarecaux, Joseph Mangine | |
| Edition | Uncensored |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Mono [English] Dolby Digital Stereo [English] |
| Distributor | Fangoria |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Nov 09, 2004 |
| Regions | Region 1 |
| Owner | MLZ MEMBERS |
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| Location | MLZ ARCHIVES |
| Storage Device | DIGITAL MEDIA FILE 1 |
| Watched | |
| Condition | Excellent |
| Index | 1886 |
| Added Date | Oct 06, 2014 12:42:07 |
| Modified Date | Aug 22, 2022 20:17:33 |
Because the film was one of the first movies to receive an X-rating from the MPAA (Motion Picture Association) based on violence and some nudity, it took a lot of editing to get it back down to an "R." The film was heavily edited for its content by just about every projectionist in the United States. This was at the invitation of the film's producer, Jerry Gross. There were very few copies of the film in existence that remained intact the way the director had intended. Every single film print had been edited differently.
The film's lead actor, Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury was a famous dancer in his native India. He had moved to New York City and started his own dance company in the 1950s. On October 25, 1977, during rehearsal in a New York City theater, he fell from the stage into the orchestra pit, which left him permanently paralyzed. After a severe decline in health, he died on August 4, 2003