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''Werewolves on Wheels'', AKA ''Angel Warriors II''

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"This gang thought it was tough... 'til it found a new type of hell... the bride of Satan!"  When a biker gang visits a monastery dedicated to a cult of devil worshipers, they rescue a woman who will be sacrificed as the bride of Satan, and incur the curse of the cult, discovering that one of their number is a werewolf, and the gang is being slaughtered by the monster, one by one!


==Details==
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* Release Date:  1971
* Country/Language:  US, English
* Genres/Technical:  Thriller, Horror (werewolf and [[Folk Horror]])
* Setting:  [[California]](?) USA, [[1960s]] or [[1970s]]
* Runtime:  1 hr 25 min  
* Starring:  Steve Oliver, Donna Anders, Gene Shane
* Director:  Michel Levesque
* Writer:  David M. Kaufman, Michel Levesque
* Producer/Production Co:  South Street Films
* View Trailer: ([https://youtu.be/ePyY5Yv6d3s link])
* View Film:  ([https://youtu.be/n0hC2rK1oTk link])
* IMDB Page:  ([http://wwww.imdb.com/title/tt0067972/ link])

==Ratings==
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* Rated:  R (mild Violence, mild Adult Content and Profanity, brief Nudity)


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Not very Lovecraftian, but it does have a groovy cult of satanic hippy monks, and the whole biker-werewolf thing feels roughly like a goofy but fun left-over idea from the ''[[Night Stalker (1972 franchise)]]'', dialed up to an 'R' rating with content borrowed from a ''[[Rosemary's Baby (1968 film)]]'' style satanic horror movie or inspired by British folk horror......

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* Kyle Anderson at The Nerdist, ([http://nerdist.com/schlock-awe-werewolves-on-wheels/ link]) - "There was so much potential for insanity here, but ''Werewolves on Wheels'' is little more than just a meandering exercise in shoving two genres together with only the thinnest strand to connect them. None of the acting is very good, the writing is kind of nothing, and the horror is about as unhorrifying as it gets. The opening sequence is pretty impressive, though, I will admit that...."
* Michael Den Boer at 10,000 Bullets, ([http://10kbullets.com/reviews/werewolves-on-wheels/ link]) - "Overall ''Werewolves on Wheels'' tries to mix too many genres into one cohesive film and what we are left with is a highly entertaining but flawed film...."
* Joe Kenney at Glorious Trash ([http://glorioustrash.blogspot.com/2020/03/random-movie-reviews-volume-11.html link]) (Review also covers two other Biker movies.) - "... I was under the impression this would be a campy biker-horror cash-in, but as with ''The Peace Killers'' I was surprised at how good ''Werewolves On Wheels'' really was. It’s more along the lines of Easy Rider with an overlay of the Satanic renaissance that was going on at the time in the counterculture; I mean if Kenneth Anger ever made a werewolf biker film it would’ve surely been like this. Somehow this low-budget bikersploitation picture captures the burned-out, occult-heavy vibe of the early ‘70s, and it does so incredibly well."
* Marty McKee at Johnny LaRue's Crane Shots ([http://craneshot.blogspot.com.au/2006/08/werewolves-on-wheels.html link]) - "Give Levesque and Kaufman credit for trying something new with the well-worn biker genre. ... ''Werewolves on Wheels'' is not particularly good, but it offers some nice cinematography, decent acting, enjoyable music..."
* Richard Scheib at the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (3/5 Stars), ([http://www.moria.co.nz/horror/werewolvesonwheels.htm link]) - "For the most part ''Werewolves on Wheels'' does a fine job of presenting itself as a serious biker movie... When it comes to the werewolf half of the premise, Michel Levesque interestingly keeps the werewolf attacks all off-screen - this has the effect of transcending the film's undeniable schlock premise and treating the concept with a seriousness that is very different to what one expects of the film. Ultimately though, the downside of this is also an avoidance of the premise – the werewolf is on screen so little that the only dramatic thing for the film to do is play a game of whodunnit in trying to work out which of the gang is the werewolf...."

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When a biker gang visits a monastery dedicated to a cult of devil worshipers, they rescue a woman who will be sacrificed as the bride of Satan, and incur the curse of the cult, discovering that one of their number is a werewolf, and the gang is being slaughtered by the monster, one by one!
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==Notes==

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