30/06/2016

Intrépidos Punks (1980)


The Mexican police try to stop a gang of crazed punks.
Starring: Juan Valentin, Princesa Lea, Juan Gallardo, Ana Luisa Peluffo

Link to IMDB

A horde of wantonly destructive punks have gathered in Mexico, and together they form a motorcycle gang. With mistress Fiera as their leader they are often busy robbing banks to help fund their drug smuggling operations, and she is also amassing weapons in preparations for some serious violence. The first step of their plan is to rescue her boyfriend Tarzan from jail, so Fiera uses some creative hostage taking and gang rape to terrify the prison guards and he's quickly released. With Tarzan free the punks are getting stronger and crazier, ready to celebrate their savagery.

Tarzan and Fiera
La policía 
The police have been tracking the gang's smuggling activity, but they don't have much success in stopping them. The two officers on the case, Javier and Marco, are desperate enough to go undercover at local bars to find information on where the drugs and weapons are coming from.
Meanwhile, fueled by beer and depravity, the punks begin a road trip of carnage and crime. No one can stop them as they trample anyone that gets in their way.
It's hard to tell who we are supposed to be rooting for. The punks are all murderers and rapists, but the police are just as sleazy and surely more boring. Regardless, both sides create a balance to the meager story, as the punks party wildly and the police plan their investigation with the occasional shoot-out.

Sex and drugs and violence,
and lots of rock n' rooooooollll.

There's not much plot to follow but the movie flies by quick. Everything is delivered fast and loose, with energetic music and an unruly enthusiasm. The scenes of rape and violence are nasty but not graphic, and the self-consciously campy tone keeps it in the realm of enjoyable bad-taste.
The movie fails by not giving any conflict that's connected to a story. The punks and cops don't actually meet until the last 15 minutes, but it would have been much more interesting to see them play cat-and-mouse the whole time.

Take all the outlaw sleaze of the 1970s biker exploitation films, put it in a blender with anarchic punk archetypes, and serve it with a burrito. There you have Intrépidos Punks.

Be sure not to miss:
- That sweet shuriken action.
- Some rather crazy stunts and fights. Surely people were sent to the hospital during filiming.
- The theme song will get stuck in your head for weeks, because you'll hear it many times.

Internet review:
"It's a colossal juggernaut striding across the landscape of sleazy movies." - Teleport

Should I watch it?
I still recommend it, but you'll require alcohol.

Where can I find it?
Here on YouTube.

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