Rolling thunder:1987Director:Steven Hillard stern
The storyline:
A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family and raped his girlfriend.The six drunken sons of influential local business owner Tiny Doyle have been terrorizing the streets of their small town in their pick-up truck. Local trucker Big Joe Rosso has a wife named Kathy, a son named Joey, and two young daughters named Allison and Kristin. Big Joe and Joey do business with Tiny, delivering liquor to his bar, but that doesn't stop Tiny's son Vic from driving drunk and running Kathy off the road, killing Kathy, Allison, and Kristin. Thanks to Tiny's influence, the local judge sets Vic free after ordering Vic to pay a $300 fine. Lieutenant Sly, one of the local cops, is sympathetic toward the Rosso family, but Sly is about to retire, and Tiny has a lot of clout in this town. Enraged and bereaved, Big Joe goes after Vic, but the Doyles kill Big Joe. After that, they rape Joey's girlfriend Misty. Enraged and frustrated, Joey builds a monster truck out of junked car and truck parts
After Thoughts:
It all sounds pretty silly, right? Well, it is – in all the right ways. This Canadian-produced piece of ’80s exploitation really should be watched by fans of the B-movie or films in the revenge genre. For everyone else, be forewarned as you may spend more a lot of time catching glimpses of your ceiling as a result from the number of eyerolls you conduct. But to give you a little bit of comparisons, this film would be like plucking Charles Bronson from Death wish and plopping him into a much lower-budget Road house But Bronson’s weapon would not be a gun, it would be a 15-foot high monster truck that shoots flames and is outfitted with an extremely phallic drill protruding from the front bumper.
I give this movie a ( C )
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