Rabid mortorcycle gang 1968-1970: Name?

[hollandgirl]

Hi, I am trying to discover the name of a movie my boyfriend dragged me to in the early 1970's. It may have been an Italian movie. I remember a motorcycle gang that gets rabies, by the end of the movie, I think everyone had rabies. I think there were chainsaws and I do remember it was so bad it was funny. If you know the name, I would appreciate a response!

[bloodrayne]

Rabid (1977)

Directed by
David Cronenberg

Writing credits
David Cronenberg

Genre: Horror / Thriller

Tagline: Pray it doesn't happen to you

Plot Summary: Rose is involved in a motorcycle accident, and has experimental surgery performed in order to save her life...

Cast overview, first billed only:
Marilyn Chambers .... Rose
Frank Moore .... Hart Read
Joe Silver .... Murray Cypher
Howard Ryshpan .... Dr. Dan Keloid
Patricia Gage .... Dr. Roxanne Keloid
Susan Roman .... Mindy Kent
Roger Periard .... Lloyd Walsh
Lynne Deragon .... Nurse Louise
Terry Schonblum .... Judy Glasberg
Victor Désy .... Claude LaPointe
Julie Anna .... Nurse Rita
Gary McKeehan .... Smooth Eddy
Terence G. Ross .... Farmer
Miguel Fernandes .... Man In Cinema
Robert O'Ree .... Police Sergeant

Also Known As:
Rage (1977/I) (USA)
Runtime: 91 min
Country: Canada
Language: English
Color: Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: Australia:R / Finland:K-18 / France:-16 / Ireland:18 / Norway:18 / Sweden:15 / UK:18 / USA:R / West Germany:18

RABID
Summary: * *1/2 out of 4.

After being in a motorcycle accident Rose (porn queen Marilyn Chambers has a brand new type of surgery performed on her. It saves her life, but it has a serious side effect. It causes her to thirst for human blood and infect everyone she can get her hands on. Scary, effective horror film with some smart jabs, is also sometimes slow moving & dull. Marilyn Chambers is adequate, but nothing more.

[kpropain]

Damn beaten to the punch. I am quite sure Bloodrayne is right on this one.

[hollandgirl]

I was married by that time to someone else. I am sure I saw this movie between 1969 and 1972. My best guess is that it was the summer (saw it at a drive-in) of 1971. Thanks, for responding!
:)

[DarkwingMantis]

Damn blood. Informative But a little overkill (Color: Eastman Color) Lol...:D but im impressed. You get coolness points!:cool:

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by hollandgirl
I was married by that time to someone else. I am sure I saw this movie between 1969 and 1972. My best guess is that it was the summer (saw it at a drive-in) of 1971. Thanks, for responding!
:)
This is the only other "motorcycle gang" movie (that I can think of), from around that time period, that even comes close to fitting your description...But, there is no rabies infection...Is it possible that you may have seen both movies and mixed them just a bit?...I do that sometimes...Anyway, here it is...

Psychomania (1971)

Directed By...
Don Sharp

Genre: Horror

Tag Line: Ride with the Living Dead!

Plot Summary: A Gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town...

Cast overview, first billed only:
Nicky Henson .... Tom
Mary Larkin .... Abby
Ann Michelle .... Jane
Roy Holder .... Bertram
Denis Gilmore .... Hatchet
Miles Greenwood .... Chopped Meat
Peter Whitting .... Gash
Rocky Taylor .... Hinky
Robert Hardy .... Chief Inspector Hesseltine
Patrick Holt .... Sergeant
Alan Bennion .... Constable
John Levene .... Constable
Beryl Reid .... Mrs. Latham
George Sanders .... Shadwell
Jacki Webb .... Mother

Also Known As:
Psycho Maniacs (1971) (Australia)
Death Wheelers, The (1971) (USA)
Frog, The (1971)
Living Dead, The (1971)
Runtime: 95 min
Country: UK
Language: English
Color: Color (Technicolor)
Classification: Australia:M / UK:X

PSYCHOMANIA

Summary:
This film is hindered by a weak script and quite apathetic acting, but somehow it's ridiculousness makes it strangely entertaining. Unintentionally, Psychomania is an amusing farce, the story of a group of bikers who discover the secret of eternal life, and intend to use this gift for nefarious purposes. The gang themselves are meant to be hardened troublemakers, but the scene where they descend on a town to cause mayhem, is hilarious. I would have thought the Girl Guides could cause more trouble. Saying that, the film has some wonderful one liners, and there is fun to be had in watching this oddball of a movie. Best of all is the sequence where the bikers all commit suicide in order to return as invincible, not for them a simple death the varied ways are way overelaborate and funny. Biker Horror is an odd genre, but the film is great fun and worth a look. Finally, the film does have a cracking soundtrack, a strange blend of gothic high pitched keyboards and hip "wah wah" guitar, that is always lurking and ably partnering the high jinks on the screen.

[hollandgirl]

Hey, all you posters! You are great!!! Thanks so much. I suppose it is possible that I got two movies mixed up. This is a thirty year memory, after all. Horror movies make me a wreck though, so I can't imagine that I got talked into seeing two of them that summer.... on the other hand, that boy was really cute.

This is more of what I remember: People dripping drool from their mouths, everyone wild with rabies. Rabid people using chain saws to cut up other people. Somehow in the end, they all die....

The only other thing I remember is holding my hands in front of my eyes a lot (as I said, horror movies cause way more adrealine than I can handle) and that it wasn't a very well made movie, which is why I think it may have been Italian.

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by hollandgirl
This is more of what I remember: People dripping drool from their mouths, everyone wild with rabies. Rabid people using chain saws to cut up other people. Somehow in the end, they all die....
That description REALLY sounds like "Rabid"

[BudMan]

Except for the motorcycle gang part, this sounds like "I Drink Your Blood". It did have rabid satanist hippies and rabid construction workers.

I DRINK YOUR BLOOD [ 1970 ]
Cinemation Industries/Box Office Spectaculars
Director: David Durston
Producer: Jerry Gross
Screenplay: David Durston
Cinematography: Jacques Demarecaux
Editor: Lyman Hallowell
Cast: Bhaskar, Rhonda Fultz, Arlene Farber, George Patterson, Riley Mills, John McCook, Alex Mann, Elizabeth Marner-Brooks, Richard Bowler, Jadine Wong, Tyde Kierney, Iris Brooks, Bruno Damon, Mike Gentry, Lynn Lowry

:cool:

[Ritualistic]

Yeah definately Rabid.. I fucking love this movie.. it is cool that you saw it at the drive in.. Damn I wish I could have lived through days like that.. :D

[hollandgirl]

I just checked the synopis of both "Rabid" and "I Drink Your Blood" and Bud Man, you were right! They ate meat pies to get the rabies--- I definately remember that part and the motorcycle gang that I remembered certainly could have been the hippies in the movie.

Think I am going to have to try to get a copy and then talk one of my daughters into coming over some night to watch it with me.

This has been bugging me for years!

:p

[BudMan]

I gotta get me a copy of this as well. It definitely falls into the category of "so bad its good". I first saw this at the drive-in as well. Ahhhhh the good ole days.

[Dr.Kelvinstein]

The movie is probably Werewolves on Wheels. It did play American theaters.

It's been years since I've seen it, but the motorcycle gang did become rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth werewolves.

[Killer Clown#1]

David Cronenberg eh, sounds like a must see
:)