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The Man-Eaters are an all-girl gang of bikers, led by Queen (Betty
Connell), whose motto it is to treat men just like meat no more. To prove
that, they have all vowed to not have any girlfriends or any seriour
relationships with men, instead they just have a stable of studs and have
bike races about who's getting who ... But Karen (Christie Wagner), the good
girl of the bunch, has fallen in love with one of the studs, Bill
(David Harris) - which is why the others rough Bill up a bit and force
Karen to drag him through the streets, hanging from behind her motorbike
...
Honey Pot (Nancy Lee Noble) is the youngest of the bunch, and now she
has her initiation - which pretty much means she's stripped to her
underwear, her finger is cut for all the other Man-Eaters to drink blood
from, then she is covered in paint, after which she is treated to a
gang-bang (not gang-rape) with all the studs - which happens
off-screen though.
The Man-Eaters have a run in with Joe-Boy's (John Weymer) all-male
gang, but the girls beat the men pretty much to a pulp. Joe-Boy swears
revenge, naturally.
Ted (Rodney Bedell), good girl Karen's ex, hears about Joe-Boy's plans,
and he contacts Karen to warn her, and even joins the Man-Eater's stable
of studs when she won't listen, just to protect her. However, Joe-Boy's
revenge is not an all-out attack but instead he has a more sublime
approach, has Honey Pot kidnapped, gang-raped, roughed up and delivered
back to the girls. Now it's the girls' time for revenge, and they do it by
luring Joe-Boy into a street across which they have spanned a wire. When
he rides through the street on a motorbike and hits the wire, his head
gets clean cut off ...
Once again, Ted tries to persuade Karen to leave the Man-Eaters, but
she decides to ride with her sisters no matter what - and before you know
it, she and the whole crew are arrested by the police because they have
left evicence - a bike chain - at the crimescene of Joe-Boy's decapitation
...
I have to admit, by and large I am a fan of Herschell Gordon Lewis' who
in some ways revolutionized the horror genre as such with his very unique
drive-in fare. She-Devils on Wheels though, his excursion into the
gang- and biker-movie, is not one of his better films - mainly because the
film lacks a real dramatic build-up. The episodes of this film are only
loosely collected and are pretty much interchangeable, plus the episodes
in themselves sometimes lack dramatic build-up as well and are often
rather uninteresting, not made any better by the fact that some are
needlessly padded out. Add to this sheer endless scenes that show nothing
but the girls biking and rather sloppily directed action (action as such
simply wasn't Herschell Gordon Lewis' forte in the first place) and you've
got one boring biker film - matter of fact though, many biker films are
rather boring.
Not really worth your time.
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