This is a pretty interesting documentary about gangs in the South Bronx in the late 70's. It was such a weird time looking back at it today since we're talking about a world before rap music and the whole hip-hop culture changed everything. Also if you ever thought that the gangs from THE WARRIORS were a complete Hollywood fabrication this film might make you rethink that a bit. Of course you don't get any Baseball Furies type silly gangs but the two groups interviewed, The Savage Nomads and The Savage Skulls, have interracial members which is something I had really only ever seen in movies like DEATH WISH and THE EXTERMINATOR before this. It's also extremely odd to see black and Puerto-Rican inner-city gang bangers wearing German war helmets and standing in front of swastika flags. It's as if their whole motif was lifted from 60's biker clubs and transported to a burnt out cityscape. The whole thing really just consists of interviews of gang members and a couple of reenactments of their criminal hijinks but it was a worthwhile look back at a time and place that I probably wouldn't ever want to be stuck in.
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