Mad Foxes

Phewy, some of the people writing these reviews have no clue what's up. Mad Foxes isn't just your regular flick you watch and judge. It's an exploitation classic with ridiculous ideas and situations. You should at least know that much going into it. But then I read that people had issues with how awful the dubbing was. Get the f@ck outta here! I can agree that it's not well-done in the sense it really overlaps well, or even sounds good. But these issues are moot when watching a flick like this. A flick with a double revenge story, karate guys fighting biker Nazis, lots of violence, sex and sleaze. I can understand that some people may have been expecting better dubbing, but the dubbing in this movie is although amateurish, it's incredibly funny and entertaining. It's similar to classic Popeye. Popeye (or any character) will ramble on about stuff when it seems unnecessary to do so. It's also the case here. There's silly dialogue thrown all over the place in here, and it's undeniably humorous. It's bad in the big scheme of professional dubbing, but if you've seen Premutos or any other poorly dubbed film that benefits from such crazy dubbing, this will only heighten your viewing experience.

Besides the dubbing stuff, I gotta say I really enjoyed the flick and it immediately became one of my favorite exploit flicks. It was funny, stupid, over-the-top, had many memorable scenes and was a very fun and fast watch at under 80 minutes long. My only gripe is a slight slow down in the pace during the last act or so. But it's all made up for when the finale occurs. Now that had me laughing. Check out Mad Foxes if you can actually spot the funny and enjoy crazy exploitation goodness.

Mad Foxes is a film I first caught via its pre-cert UK VHS release, which was still a blast despite being a heavily cut version, and lead me to seek out an uncut DVD release a few years ago which contained all the ultra-violence that got trimmed by the nervous British distributor.

If you've never seen it before, Mad Foxes depicts the tit for tat conflict between flash playboy Hal and a shambolic biker gang, the bikers take umbrage at Hal's expensive corvette and spit on his face, he retaliates by running one of them off the road, they retaliate by beating him up and raping his girlfriend, he then calls on his friends at a karate school who beat up the bikers, castrate their leader and stick his dick into his mouth (needless to say that bit got cut from the UK video), the bikers then wipe out the members of the karate school with machine guns and grenades ….and so it goes on, and on, and on. Trashy and badly dubbed dialogue ("you squeal like an old bitch", "don't you have a little knife with you? I'd like to slice your prick", "you'll like my family, though my mother is an invalid, she fell from a horse and became paralytic"), only adds to the fun. It's also distinguished by a wildly over the top performance by an actor called Eric Falk, who judging from the trailers on the DVD, appears to have had quite a career in eurosleaze of the Erwin C. Dietrich stable. There is an air of Gypsy Dave Cooper about Falk's turn in Mad Foxes, and he is a similar mixture of heavy, exhibitionist, and comic relief imbecile "I can't stand it, we're not going to see him anymore" he boo hoos at the funeral of a slain biker buddy. Incredibly the film seems to have been conceived as an unofficial sequel to the 1978 American film 'Stingray' starring Christopher Mitchum , but I seriously doubt the two films have anything in common other than their heroes both owning Corvette Stingrays. In a scene towards the end of the film where Hal shoots up a film studio, you can even see this film's original title 'Stingray 2' written on a clapperboard prop, but it'll always be "Mad Foxes" to me. For all I know director Paul Grey could be a lifelong teetotaller and have grandchildren now, but the unusual amount of male full frontal nudity in the film, not to mention the excessive amount of drinking that goes on (Hal and his dad being rarely without a glass in their hands) does paint a mental picture of its maker as a serious alcoholic and closet case. The film optimistically writes its own epitaph when one of the bikers proclaims "the whole world will admire us".

In Denmark this gory and sick mutant was called "The Bikers And The Disco Kid"!?! It should give you a clue of what kind of trash we're dealing with here. After showing off his flashy fast car the "hero" gets beaten up and his girl is brutally raped by a moronic biker gang. He then contacts his kung fu buddies for help and they beat up the bikers and cut off the leader's penis (!) for revenge. The bikers then come back and gun down the kung fu guys...and so on. The dubbing is properly the worst ever and the film is drenched in blood, swastikas, disco, heavy metal, small bikes, sex and bad acting. The spirit of Herschell Gordon Lewis lives on, so get a copy of this obscure anti-masterpiece! Swiss producer Erwin C. Dietrich also worked with Jess Franco, so you know you're in for a treat!

Warning: Don't watch this freakshow unless you're intoxicated, it can seriously damaged your health!!

This is one of the absolute truly best worst films ever made. Miss it at your peril if you are a fan of excellent excrement celluloid. I mean, a Swiss/German biker wrecksploitation film with the worst dubbing, acting, soundtrack, 'plot'...hell, worst EVERYTHING KNOWN TO MAN...what's NOT to like? Go to www.filmthreat.com and see my article on it, "Hello Bastards! Here's A Little Present For YA!" to experience its true worthless splendor blow by blow.

Enjoy.

"Sure, everybody knows their hideout." - gas station attendant to angry racecar driver looking to get directions to the Mad Foxes den to kill the lot of 'em!

One of the most vile exploitation movies ever made, MAD FOXES is often unduly compared to LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT in its mixture of gory violence and subversive social commentary.

The film details a violent rivalry between Hal Martin, a yuppie playboy who drives a fancy Stingray sports car, and a band of sociopath bikers. At a stop light, Hal kisses his 18-year-old date Babsy as the bikers roll up. Their homosexual leader taunts Hal and spits on him. When the light turns green, Hal forces one of the bikers into a fatal accident.

In an extended party scene, Hal gets Babsy drunk at a club, as a prelude to deflowering her. His plans are interrupted by the bikers, who are waiting for them outside the club. They beat him up and Babsy is brutally raped by Stiletto, the hulking psychopath of the group.

Hal's desire for revenge is answered by a friend who runs a kickboxing school. As the bikers get drunk at a makeshift funeral for their fallen compatriot, a dozen or so angry kick boxers show up. After they beat up the bikers and castrate the leader.

The bikers retaliate, visiting the kickboxing school with machine guns and killing everyone in sight. They storm Hal's apartment building and shoot a parking lot guard. A neighborhood boy warns Hal, who quickly flees the city.

At this point, the film digresses with an overlong sequence of two nude lovers gamboling on an ocean beach. They get dressed and start hitchhiking when along comes Hal in his Stingray. The woman, Lily, gets in the car with Hal and leaves her man stranded on the side of the road.

She and Hal end up at his wealthy parents' country estate. Dad is a wealthy patriarch type and Mom is stuck in a wheelchair. As Hal and Lily exercise their sexual rites in the forest and in a bathtub filled with dirty water, the bikers show up and massacre the rest of the family and servants. This pushes Hal over the edge and, armed with guns and grenades, he finishes off the bikers. The movie's nihilistic coda finds the surviving castrated biker leader holding Hal and Lily at bay with a bomb.

MAD FOXES is constructed as a fable, in which logic is subverted in order to make a statement. If its makers offer any message at all, it's an hysterical overreaction to upper caste fears of street punks and gun-toting anarchists. The coiffed, macho Hal is not portrayed as an action hero, and his methods and motivations are only a little less vicious than the bikers. But he is rich, drives a nice car and can easily seduce vapid women, whereas the bikers are greasy-haired, un-socialized rejects who are given a vaguely gay cast.

In published interviews the film's producer, Swiss sleaze-master Erwin C. Dietrich, has played down his involvement with the film and claims it was too excessive even for him. That says a lot.