Werewolves on Wheels is a 1971 American exploitation film

Exploitation film

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 that blends two genres: the outlaw biker film

Outlaw biker film

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 and the traditional horror movie.

Plot

As a group of bikers moves across the desert, they come across an old church that a satanic cult has taken over. The cultists give them drugged food, and the bikers soon fall asleep. That night the cultists cast a curse on the biker leader's girlfriend, that makes her turn into a werewolf after nightfall; she soon infects her boyfriend. The bikers leave the church, and begin to be killed off whenever they stop for the night. Things come to a climax when the couple changes in front of the bikers, who quickly kill the beasts. The bikers return to the church to have their revenge, but stop when they see themselves in the cult-procession.

Cast

• Stephen Oliver
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   as Adam
• D.J. Anderson as Helen
• Deuce Barry as Tarot
• William Gray
  Billy Gray (actor)
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   as Pill
• Gray Johnson as Movie
• Barry McGuire
  Barry McGuire
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   as Scarf
• Owen Orr as Mouse
• Anna Lynn Brown as Shirley

Production

In many scenes, footage was used of real bikers with no experience or training in acting

Acting

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 going about their lives as normal. Thus, parts of this film could be regarded as an early experiment in reality as entertainment

Reality television

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