This film begins with three motorcyclists driving down a rural highway when one of the men named "Teach" (Gary Kent) stops to pick up a woman walking alongside the road. After driving a short distance he then pulls off into some woods where he rapes her and drives off afterward.
Three, tough talkin', barefooted, moonshiner sisters go on the run from the law after springing one of their number from the local jail, and unwisely allow three murderous bikers to escape with them... in a film that has its eye on the biker genre and its hand up the skirt of hickploitation.
This movie starts on the wrong foot when a biker rapes a female hitchhiker. He and a couple of the cycle gang then encounter some women who run a moonshine operation and terrorizes them as well.
David Hewitt started his career as an illusionist for a traveling spook show called Dr. Jekyll's Strange Show before Forrest J.
Director David Hewitt is best-known for his sci-fi work such as WIZARD OF MARS and JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF TIME, as well as the unclassifiable THE MIGHTY GORGA, which I've seen about ten times! This little-known biker/rural-revenge flick (shot in Texas?
THE GIRLS FROM THUNDER STRIP is a cheap and trashy biker movie and one of the less well known examples of the genre. The plot is basically about a murderous gang of male bikers who go up against an all-female gang of bootleggers.
