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Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Scott LeBrun Future soft-core auteur Zalman King does his best David Hess, snarling and sleazing his way through this satisfying exploitation feature. The King plays Al; Al and his less depraved brother Pete (Robert Porter) are bikers who encounter a teacher and her four comely female students on the road. The teacher is Ms. Tenny (Brenda Fogarty), who is taking the girls on a field trip. Circumstances soon lead Al and Pete to bring the gals to an abandoned farmhouse. After committing a murder, the two of them realize that they can't really afford to let the gals live. But first, they're going to have some fun..."Trip with the Teacher" was the sole filmmaking effort for writer / producer / director Earl Barton, ordinarily a dancer / choreographer, so this does seem like an odd choice of material for him. But he makes it work, and the movie is gripping in its tension and sleaze factor. Voyeurs will be pleased to see the clothes come off the gals with some regularity. And the situation is compelling, with the unlikelihood of any saviours coming to the rescue making for a true ordeal for the ladies. Their best bet is with a nice-guy biker named Jay (Robert Gribbin, "Don't Go Near the Park"), who'd made the acquaintance of Al & Pete earlier in the day by offering them some assistance. And adding some unintentional humour is the fact that Tina (Jill Voight) clearly can't run with any speed or sense of urgency. It's no wonder that Al is able to catch up with her.The tone is established fairly early on, with Al deciding to punish an old service station attendant (Edward Cross) basically for being a crotchety fart. The movie isn't totally without laughs, but it mostly concentrates on being grim and gritty.Fogarty is wonderfully spunky, Gribbin is quite likable (as is Jack Driscoll as Marvin the bus driver), and the girls are appealing, especially Dina Ousley ('Bronk') as tough, experienced Bobbie. But "Trip with the Teacher" truly belongs to the marvellously scuzzy King, who's a bad guy par excellence.A worthy viewing for any lover of 1970s drive-in cinema.Eight out of 10.

Goingbegging Four teenage girls and their lady-teacher crossing the desert on a strictly educational tour of ancient America. And a couple of bikers whose minds seem to be on something rather less edifying. It sounds like a recipe for a porn film, though if you want nudity and explicit sex, you'll be disappointed. But don't worry, there's still enough gratuitous violence and sadism to shock your parents. Because that's the level we're at - basically schoolboy fantasy.The little group is faced with everybody's worst desert nightmare, a breakdown in the middle of nowhere, little guessing that the nightmares have hardly started. The two bikers seem rather like the Kray Twins of 60's London, one totally mad (in sci-fi-bug wraparound sunglasses), egging-on a more placid brother. Soon they pull up beside the minibus, and offer to tow it to the service-station. But instead they abduct their captives to a deserted house, where they inflict unspeakable humiliations on them.None of the four girls carry any conviction whatever, except at the scream-queen moments. Even at the beginning, when it's mostly small-talk, they seem to be reading the lines, not playing them. And imprisoned in the house of horrors, they just sit there like guests at a dull party. We know that one of them is meant to be openly randy, and a second one is a puritan virgin. But the other two could be tailors' dummies, for all we discover about them. Brenda Fogarty as the teacher puts a bit more into it, but they missed their chance to cast a proper schoolmarm fantasy-figure. Fogarty just looks like the girl next door.And more faults, perhaps not worth lingering-on. Countless missed opportunities for the girls to escape. The teacher eventually killing the villain by running him through with an iron bar, not too feasible really. Some unsubtle feeding-in of loud birdsong, as though we'd forgotten we were in the wilds. And a terrible ending, with ghostly stuck-on grins by the survivors.Zalman King as the mad brother is the power behind the film, and he went on to become quite a well-known writer/director. At a time when the exploits of Charles Manson were still vivid in the American mind, King seems to have been trying to replicate those wild mood-swings - snarling savagery one moment, spaced-out mumbling the next.Good enough for 16-year old boys, longing to listen-in on girlie-talk and fantasizing about power of life and death over five vulnerable females.

gavin6942 A group of female students and their teacher (Brenda Fogarty) are traveling through the desert by bus. After the bus breaks down, they are stranded with three bikers, one of whom is a vicious killer. Is there a limit to what immoral beasts will do to teenage girls? The movie answers the age-old question: can three motorcycles tow a school bus? I don't want to ruin the suspense, but the answer is actually yes, apparently.The film comes off as a cross between "Easy Rider" and "Last House on the Left". There's clearly a Krug (Al, played by Zalman King) and a Junior (Jay Andrews, played by Robert Gribbin) here, but of course, now they have motorcycles! The girls are dressed a bit skimpy, flirt a bit too much, and whatnot. Especially Bobbie (Dina Ousley), the girl in the yellow short shorts. I don't want to say they brought their situation on themselves, but they did not make it any easier. The thugs were teased and taunted to the breaking point.

Navajas I bought this movie as part of a 12 movie boxed set from the dump bin at the local department store and gave it a try. At first, I wasn't sure if it was one of the many sleazy 70's exploitation flicks featuring explicit sex, rape, and full-frontal nudity, or more reminiscent of the much tamer teensploitation ventures from the 60's. Right around the time the first nipple made its appearance, I realized the former was true.As the movie opens, we are introduced to two groups of people. First, we have a (short) bus containing the driver, a very young teacher, Miss Tenny, and four female students, all heading out to Los Angeles through the desert for an educational field trip of some sort that is never fully elaborated upon. Second, we meet two brothers who are either on the run from the law or have been recently released from prison (again, no further elaboration), who have had the misfortune to wind up with motorcycle problems. The brothers, Pete and Al, are visited on the side of the road by nice guy motorcyclist Jay, who decides to stop and help them out, then join them to make a trio. As it turns out, they're heading the same direction as the bus full of hotties, and they all end up fueling up at the same gas station. It is, at this point, that we see the nature of the three bikers--Jay is the nice guy, and Pete would like to be, but Al, his brother, is completely f**ked in the head. We learn this after Al intensely crushes a handful of stamps then kills the gas station attendant by lowering a car on the poor old man.Shortly after the encounter between the two groups, the bus breaks down and Marvin, the bus driver, has no idea how to fix the problem. While doing this, the four students have a fun little conversation about sex, which leads to a rough and dirty cat-fight between the easy girl and the Bible-banger. The three bikers then encounter the bus again, and seem about halfway willing to assist--although crazy Al starts showing his true colors to the teacher while flirting with Bobbie, the feisty and logical slut of the group. While Miss Tenny would prefer to have the three leave and never come back, Pete and Jay, trying to be civil, offer to help the group out and Al, snickering mischievously, agrees. Having precious little choice, the school folks allow the bikers to tow them (yes, three motorcycles are shown towing a short bus), but Al doesn't take the bus to safety. Oh no. They take the bus to isolation, and the mayhem begins.This flick does have a few extreme situations, including rape and murder, and a bit of female nudity as well. It also has a distinct but thin story to go along with it--although characters aren't well developed and we never do find out the background of either the protagonists or antagonists. This movie is genuinely a product of its own time--I say this because, for example, it does portray the dominance of a group of five women by two men after the male hero, Jay, is incapacitated. I dare say that if this movie were to take place only ten years later, the five women would have knocked Pete out and beaten Al's skull to a bloody pulp. Hell, there was at least one scene when the lone Al was writhing on the floor in existential anguish while three of the young women stood and watched--if only one of them had the fortitude to boot him square in the head, the movie would have been over at that point. Let's face it: modern audiences would never tolerate that sort of weakness being portrayed by characters for no other reason than their gender.This flick isn't for everyone, but when it comes to cinematic sleaze, there's always going to be an audience. For those expecting something along the lines of Wes Craven's THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, prepare to be disappointed, as TRIP WITH THE TEACHER isn't nearly as extreme. Overall, it's really a minor entry into the exploitation genre. It's worth watching if part of a cheap boxed set, but I honestly could not see hunting this down.