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)

Not enough gratuitous content.

A great title leads you to great expectations. "Surf Nazis Must Die" is a title that DEMANDS a movie overflowing with needless sex and unnecessary violence. Characters should be killing and dying and stripping and screwing ceaselessly and pointlessly from beginning to end. It should be filled with bizarreness, crammed with oddities that were included not because they make sense, but because somebody in the cast or crew thought it was a good idea at the time. "Surf Nazis Must Die" should have been the cinematic equivalent of 'found art.' Alas, it isn't. Rather the filmmakers told a largely conventional story of revenge in a largely conventional manner. And when there wasn't enough content to fill out the movie, instead of throwing in some irrelevant bits of sex, violence or weirdness, they fluffed up the scenes carrying the main storyline, making them slow and dull, instead of quick and sharp. Even the sex and violence that IS in the movie is dull and forgettable. But this is common enough in the low budget world - and not a sin - where high quality is expected to be beyond the means and talent of the filmmakers. But they should remember that quantity is also a quality and that a pile of low-grade industrial diamonds can be worth more than a few gemstones.