I'll pretty much watch any movie with the word "massacre" in the title and usually this means you're gonna get some type of horror film. In this case you get a biker flick but there is an actual massacre that happens in the movie so they're not lying. The plot involves a scumbag police officer beats up and rapes a hippie chick and then blames it on this biker club. From there on it's open season on bikers and it all ends up in a big Vietnam-metaphor ending with a helicopter and grenades and lots of bloodshed. Probably my favorite thing about this movie is that the sleazy bikers are the heroes, or in this case the victims, of the story and the authority figures are shown for the phony, corrupt, murdering lowlifes that they often can be. Of course it takes lots of scenes of bike-riding before we get to the good stuff but that's the way most of these 70's biker flicks go.
The wacky music in this is done by Michael Nesmith of The Monkees. This was apparently shot around 1972 and not released for a few years for some reason. Strange since the whole Vietnam-allegory thing might have been more powerful while the war was still going on. AKA FREEDOM: R.I.P. and WHEELS OF DEATH
Played on a weird drive-in double-feature with this obscure Mexican vampire flick:
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