Mad Foxes - fire on wheels

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Movie
German title Mad Foxes - fire on wheels
Original title Los Violadores
Country of production Spain
Switzerland
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1981
length 77 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Paul Gray
script Hans R. Walthard ,
Paul Grau
Melvin Quiñones (dialogues) ,
Jaime Jesús Balcázar
production Hans R. Walthard
Erwin C. Dietrich
music Walter Baumgartner ,
E-Flat
camera Kurt Aeschbacher ,
Hans-Toni Aschwanden
cut Peter Baumgartner
occupation

Mad Foxes - Fire on Wheels (OT: Los Violadares ), sometimes also called The Mad Foxes - Fire on Wheels (Stingray 2) , is a Spanish- Swiss exploitation film from 1981. Directed by Paul Grau . The film was produced by Erwin C. Dietrich , who was later ashamed of his participation. The film is highly controversial because of its hard splatter effects , its depiction of violence and the story, but is also seen as a trash classic .

action

Playboy Hal is on his way to the disco with his girlfriend in his Stingray sports car . He is asked by members of a Nazi rocker gang to a race in which one of the rockers dies. After a night of partying, he wants to go home with his current girlfriend to deflower her, but is overwhelmed by the rockers as he leaves the club. The rocker gang rapes his girlfriend and leaves him badly injured.

After he is released from the hospital, he calls an acquaintance from a karate school. The karate students stir up the rockers, castrate the leader and force him to swallow his member. But the revenge of the other rockers is just as cruel. They stir up the karate school and cruelly kill the leader. Then they want to grab Hal, but he escapes.

Hal wants to go into hiding with his parents in the country and takes a pretty hitchhiker with him. With this he experiences amorous adventures on his parents' country estate and in the surrounding woods. But the rockers find out about him, storm the country estate and kill his parents and all the servants.

Hal decides to take revenge and kills one rocker after another. In the end, he returns to his apartment, where the leader of the rockers is waiting for him and kills them both with a bomb.

production

The Swiss film producer Erwin C. Dietrich, who became known in the 1970s as the producer of a number of exploitation films, came to the project by chance. One of his production managers at the time was Paul Grau . He wanted to make his own film and asked Dietrich for support. Dietrich stepped in as a co-producer. However, he did not follow the shooting and only got to see the finished film, which he could never watch in full length. To this day he has had an ambivalent relationship to film. Since it was indexed very promptly for the theatrical release , it was never able to fully recover its costs, and on the other hand, Dietrich never consciously wanted to make trash films. Eric Falk appeared under the pseudonym "Robert O'Neal".

The title and subtitle of the film were, presumably deliberately, based on two major productions. The frequently used subtitle Stingray 2 refers to the rocker film Stingray . However, The Mad Foxes is not a sequel. While he shares the rocker theme with Stingray , the "Mad" refers to the first part of Mad Max , which premiered in 1979. In terms of content, the car and motorcycle scenes as well as the Rape & Revenge theme are also covered

The film was shot in Spain. The swastika was removed from the armbands and flags for all exterior shots . The soundtrack comes from the Swiss hard rock band Krokus , who released the two titles Easy Rocker and Celebration for the film. The later comedian Helmi Siggi from Trio Eden is involved in the film as one of the rockers .

The film had its cinema premiere in Germany on August 14, 1981. In the same year he appeared on video. It was indexed in 1982 by the Federal Testing Office for Writings Harmful to Young People (BPjS). The indexing was extended in 2007. After the film was out of print in German-speaking countries for many years and only available as a bootleg , it was released on October 3, 2013 as a mediabook on Illusions, limited to 666 copies.

criticism

Due to the rather rough splatter effects and sex scenes, which never tend towards hardcore pornography , made the film a coveted cult object, especially among splatter and trash fans. On the other hand, there is a disjointed story with partly amateurish effects and little meaningful synchronized fight scenes. The film was also received with resentment in the rocker scene, as it continued to spread the myth of right-wing rockers through Nazi symbols. In addition, the motorcyclists in the film mainly ride enduro machines that do not fit the rocker scene. Daniel R. Budnik called the film one of the craziest films ever made in his book 80s Action Movies on the Cheap .

The film is hardly known in the mainstream. The catholic online portal Filmdienst.de judged: “The film tastes its sadistic and bloodthirsty effects to the full; the pauses between the atrocities are bridged with sex scenes. "

synchronization

The film was produced by Peter Baumgartner's company Cinephon under the direction of dialogue . Christine Lembach wrote the dialogue book.

role actor Voice actor
Babsy Andrea Albani Alexandra Lange
Cilly / Silvia Godo Laura Premica Rita Engelmann
Hal José Gras Andreas Mannkopff
Karate trainer Linus Paul Gray Wolfgang number
Rocker Hardy Brian Billings Ulli Kinalzik
Rocker leader Peter John Saunders Friedrich Georg Backhaus
Ronny Helmi Sigg Claus Jurichs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hated Enemy or Beloved Friend: Mad Foxes - Fire on Wheels . In: Illusions (Ed.): Mediabook booklet . 2013.
  2. ↑ 5 Swiss horror films that you don't have to see. Suissebook.ch, July 19, 2018, accessed on September 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Mad Foxes - Fire on Wheels from October by Illusions. Schnittberichte.com, August 20, 2013, accessed September 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Mad Foxes - Fire on Wheels in the online movie database
  5. ↑ Gore Classicks: The Mad Foxes - Fire on Wheels . In: Virus . 76 (April / May 2017), pp. 106-107 .
  6. ↑ "nuttiest film ever" in Daniel R. Budnik: '80s Action Movies on the Cheap: 284 Low Budget, High Impact Pictures . McFarland, 2017, ISBN 978-0-7864-9741-6 , pp. 20 .
  7. ↑ Mad Foxes - Fire on Wheels. Filmdienst.de, accessed on September 22, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Mad Foxes - Fire on Wheels. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on September 22, 2019 .