MAD FOXES
dir. Paul Grau, 1981
Spain/Switzerland. 80 min.
In English.

FRIDAY, JUNE 7 – MIDNIGHT
MONDAY, JUNE 10 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, JUNE 28 – MIDNIGHT

After a run-in with a gang of Neo-Nazi bikers, played by real-life members of the Hell’s Angels, Hal (Jose Gras) swears revenge on the thugs for the brutal beating he’s endured and the rape of his girlfriend. He enlists a karate school to take on the bikers unleashing a storm of violent brawls, firefights, stabbings, car chases and grenade explosions, in Paul Grau’s MAD FOXES, a deliciously pure piece of vintage Euro-Sleaze.

Released in Spain under the shockingly direct but accurate title of LOS VIOLADORES, MAD FOXES dispenses with A CLOCKWORK ORANGE’S philosophical concerns over free will and morality in a favor of a balls-to-the-wall action-packed exploitation film, propelled by motorcycle engines and a snappy funk soundtrack, it offers many scenes of downright sleaze, but one surprisingly wholesome lindy hop dance sequence.

"A brazenly incoherent mélange of kung fu, softcore porn, Nazi fetishism and bike film pegged loosely to a rape-revenge structure, albeit one caught in a garbled narrative loop". -Alexandra Heller-Nicholas