Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)

User Rating:

2.5/10   

Director:

Peter George

Writers:

Jon Ayre (story)
Peter George (story)

Release Date:

3 July 1987 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Drama | Horror

Tagline:

The Beaches Have Become Battlefields... The Waves Are A War Zone!

Plot:

When the grandson of a gun wielding woman is murdered by neo-nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future...

Plot Keywords:

Racial Slur | Racism | Surf Film | Tromaesque | Dominatrix

Cast

Gail Neely	...	Eleanor 'Mama' Washington
Robert Harden	...	Leroy
Barry Brenner	...	Adolf
Dawn Wildsmith	...	Eva
Michael Sonye	...	Mengele
Joel Hile	...	Hook
Gene Mitchell	...	Brutus
Tom Shell	...	Smeg
Bobbie Bresee	...	Smeg's Mom
Tom Demenkoff	...	Ariel (as Ty Thomas)
John Williamette	...	Mex
Rand Hogen	...	Teeth
Daniel Kong	...	Wang
Steve Reid	...	Yin
Terry Lee	...	Yang

Also Known As:

Faszystowscy surferzy musza zginac (Poland) [pl]
Los surfistas nazis deben morir (Spain) [es]
Surf Nazis Must Die (Italy) [it]
Surf Nazis Must Die (France) [fr]
Surf-natsien täytyy kuolla (Finland) [fi]
Surfnazisterna måste dö (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]

Runtime:

USA:83 min | UK:80 min (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

Italy:VM18 (tv rating) | Australia:R | Finland:K-12 | USA:R | UK:18 | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Huntington Beach, California, USA

Company:

Troma Entertainment

Trivia:

When the murder victim bends over, the charm on his necklace drops down, revealing it to be a Hammer of Thor.

Quotes:

Eleanor "Mama" Washington: I wanna buy a gun... Keep talkin' white trash, but I'm more interested in something that'll take the head off a honky at 20 paces!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Orgazmo (1997)

marvelous Troma trash

For those of you that have been living in caves, and haven't seen this, this is a Troma "pick up" from 1987 that is a wonder to behold. To be truthful, it's fairly well done for what it is, which is "beachploitation trash". LA has been hit by "The Big One", 8.6, and it's pretty much anything goes, at least at the beach. Surf Nazis rule the beach, the waves, and whatever else their demented little minds tell them. Now, when a black man is killed by the Surf Nazis his mom, who is by no means ready for the rest home in which she's now living, decides to take matters into her own hands. There are also other rival surf "gangs" that don't take kindly to the claims of the SN's and attempt to fight back but with dire results. OK, sure, this is hokey and silly but it's also pretty fun, and I like the music & the beach scenes, in which it's all pretty deserted looking and lends some authenticity to the idea that there aren't many folks that actually survived this big quake, just a bunch of psychos fighting over surf supremacy. A classic 80's movie, fer shure. 8 out of 10.