Tagline(s):	God forgives... Black Bikers don't!
	Cool It, Baby!
	Brutally Clashing Head On In a Fury of Blood and Burning Rubber!
	Exploding Out of the Slums, Slamming Into the Establishment!
	God forgives. The Black Angels don't!
	A Portrait of the Family.

Nomination Year: 1998

SYNOPSIS: 

Two rival gangs, divided along racial lines, have a very tense truce in the town. The film tries to paint the leader of the white gang, Chainer, as at least somewhat compassionate and philosophical, but fails. The white gang is betrayed by Johnny Reb, a newcomer to its ranks, who sets them up for an ambush by the black gang by giving them downers while telling them they're uppers. It's revealed at the end that Johnny is black--or at least claims to be black, even though he looks whiter than Kenny G. All-out war ensues, involving a cougar and a snake (don't ask).

In the end, nearly everybody dies, throwing into sharp relief the horror of violence, or something. The town's conniving police lieutenant looks on approvingly. Did he plan the whole thing? We'll never know, because by this point we JUST DON'T CARE.

They could have called this film You Should Have Listened to Frenchy, since he was the only gang member always suspicious of Johnny Reb...but nobody believed him.

Smithee Award Nominations

Worst Special Effect
Evel Knievel He's Not The fatal jump, where Jimmy of the Choppers tries to jump the, uh, pothole and fails in a burst of rotten special effects.

Crummiest Ending

The Cougar, the Snake, the Song, and the Long, Dark Gang War of the Soul Goaded on by the cop, both gangs engage in a final fight. Suddenly, there is also a cougar and a snake involved (a cobra, no less, that is not indiginous, and rattles), all to the tune of a horrifically Bad song. With everyone pretty much dead (except Jackie, who runs back to Daddy), Lt. Harper looks on and shakes his head. It was all too easy. It's long. It's tedious. It's long. It's confusing. It's long. And somewhat lengthy.

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Laurence Merrick	Also directed Guess What Happened to Count Dracula? and a documentary on Charles Manson. He was shot to death by one of his acting students.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Desmond Roberts	Chainer	Was Count Adrian in Guess What Happened to Count Dracula?.
John King III	Johnny Reb	Was Wheeler in Psycho from Texas.
Linda Jackson	Jackie	Was in Black Bikers from Hell and A Taste of Hot Lead. That's it.
Robert Johnson	Knifer	AKA "Bobby," was Floyd in Coffy; played lots of bit parts and extras on a lot of '60s and '70s TV shows.
John Donovan	Frenchy	Was the Toothless Gardener in Goldmember.
James Whitworth	Big Jim	Nicknamed "Big Jim," was in The Hills Have Eyes and Planet of Dinosaurs.
Clancy Syrko	Lt. Harper	Was the narrator on the short-lived anime "Tekkaman: The Space Knight."
Beverly Gardner	Wallflower	Just this and Guess What Happened to Count Dracula?

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