BRONX WARRIORS

Bronx 1987: Straddled aboard their outlandish, fantastically outfitted, blazing chrome choppers the Warriors prowl through the streets to slay members of rival gangs. Amid the acrid stench of charred flesh wafting up to the skyscrapers of Manhattan National Guardsmen cremate every hood in their path with lethal flamethrowers - the Bronx is on fire and the Warriors are burning for revenge.

Well that clearly wasn't written by anybody who'd actually seen the thing (even though it's on the back of the cassette).

Actually there were at least 4 gangs vying for supremacy but something must have got lost in the translation from Italian.

The ultimate guilty pleasures, 1983's Bronx Warriors and it's sequel Escape From The Bronx have so many bad things and more than twice as many good.

Be it the slow-motion fight sequence between 4 Riders and 8 Zombies, Fabrizio De Angelis' magnificent scores to both movies, Anne's big hair, Trash's mincing gait, or Ogre's brutal fight to the death with Golan these movies are up there with the first Beastmaster for unadulterated guilty pleasure.

In 1985 everybody knew someone who had seen one or both of the films and we tried so hard to get penknife blades to flip down off our front bicycle forks.

If you've ever seen either of these movies then take a look. Maybe someone can tell me why Mark Gregory has simply disappeared (even IMDB have no idea) and why Enio Girolami played two identical looking characters in each film with different names.

Enjoy...