Angel’s Wild Women

Ross Hagen told me, in an interview, that the movie was shot at the Manson Ranch before the killings! He didn’t say whether Manson was there, but he did say that his wife Claire was so unnerved by the Manson clan that she couldn’t play her parts… and so they had to bring in another actress!

Sam Sherman explains the history of this movie with his excellent audio commentary. Troma and Sherman were thoughtful in their releasing of Adamson’s earlier works.

Sherman explains how the film started out as a biker chicks movie but because it was being made literally just after the end of biker movies, it was not marketable. Enter reshooting and recasting the biker chicks as the protagonists against the Manson family types filmed on the real Spahn’s ranch. Filming on the ranch gives this movie a disturbing undercurrent of horror which does add to the menacing elements of the Manson family type characters. Imagine a Nazi war picture being made in Auschwitz in the late 40’s. An ugly feeling.

The blending of storylines and reimagining of characters makes this a little uneven but it does work given the budget. With Al Adamson movies, it’s best to think of them in context with his low budget B-movie contemporaries.

It’s sad that biker films came to an abrupt end in the late 60’s, early 70’s. This is one of the last made and it’s worth watching.

did not realize i was getting a burned disc. this piece of crap won”t even play on 3 different dvd players. very dissatisfied.

Biker gangs cruising around, causing little trouble.
Having scene Satan’s Sadists first, I was not as impressed with AWW. The chicks could have been a little meaner and some more violence might have helped. Dragged at several spots.