The Tormentors

7/20/2021

_**Yes, this is a bad film, but...**_ ...if you can look past its weaknesses, the story's actually kind of interesting and there are quite a few highlights to make it worthwhile. "The Tormentors" (1971) is more of a biker film in spirit than in reality since there are only a few motorcycle scenes, but it contains all the trappings of that infamous genre that started with the excellent "The Wild Angels" in 1966 (see my review for details) and fizzled out by 1974. This film is like an early 70's comic book come to life and reminded me of Gary Friedrich & Ross Andru's short-lived "Hell-Rider" from 1971, which was inspired by the popular biker films and was the precursor to Friedrich's better-known comic "Ghost Rider." The story revolves around a well-dressed neo-Nazi group in Montere