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3 July 1987 (USA) moreTagline:
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... more | add synopsisNewsDesk:
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Great but loose moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 |
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Faszystowscy surferzy musza zginac (Poland) [pl]Surf Nazis Must Die (France) [fr]
Surf-natsien täytyy kuolla (Finland) [fi]
Surfistas nazis deben morir, Los (Spain) [es]
Surfnazisterna måste dö (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]
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If you don't like this film, it is because you don't really understand. Go pay your seven or fifteen bucks and plop down at the local cinemark, because if you don't stuff like this, it just isn't for you.
But if you can take a joke, then the thing is interesting. I haven't seen a bunch of Troma's catalogue, but I think it is one of the more memorable flicks there; it certainly isn't Tromeo and Juliet or Terror Firmer, but I don't understand the claim that it isn't a typical Troma film. At least it wasn't something like "Outlaw Prophet" (which put Troma on a blacklist with my wife). It was a genuine trash film, and taken as such seems as good as any other work of trash.
What makes this movie good is the fact that the kids have all given themselves new names, a fact that comes up when Smeg is talking to his mom (who claims he shouldn't call her mom). That is just choice.
Or the fact that the Nazis are all queens in hiding. I like the not so subtle homo-eroticism.
Of course, not only could both of these elements been mobilized more effectively, but there are other things it could have hit on. The apocalyptic oil pumping could have been used better, along with placing Leroy as part of the energy company pumping the beach dry. I was hoping that the fact that there is a big disjunction between the bourgeoisie expectations of Leroy and the ludicrous turf wars of the surf gangs could have been put to better use.
So to all you people who didn't like this because of the film making-- you are just wrong. This is what good ol' not so Hollywood film looks like. Like all real films, it's flaws are that it doesn't exploit everything that it could.