Twister's Revenge!

1988 American film
  • 1988 (1988)
Running time
90 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$95,000

Twister's Revenge! is a 1988 American action comedy film directed by Bill Rebane and released direct-to-video.[1]

Plot

Three bumbling criminals have repeatedly tried to steal the computerized control system of Mr. Twister, a talking monster truck with a mind of its own. They make one last attempt with an M60 tank.[2]

Cast

  • Dean West as Dave
  • Meredith Orr as Sherry
  • David Alan Smith as Kelly
  • R. Richardson Luka as Bear
  • Jay Gjernes as Dutch
  • Tena Murray as Lulu
  • William Dexter as Kelly's Father (credited as Bill Dexter)
  • J. Worthington Kratz as Kelly's Mother
  • Elizabeth Gray as Love Bird Singer
  • Angailica as Love Bird Dancer (credited as Angel Rebane)

Featured Monster Truck show in Ionia, Michigan featured the following drivers as themselves:

  • Rob Fuchs, driving First Blood
  • Mark Bendler, driving Kodiak
  • Jim Miller, driving Barbarian
  • Allen Pezo, driving Lone Eagle

Production

Twister's Revenge! was filmed in Gleason, Wisconsin at a cost of $95,000. Rebane said that "We had a strong lead actor [Dean West] for "Twister's Revenge" but the girl — the lead actress — [Meredith Orr] was very weak."[3]

Mr. Twister was a custom-made monster truck belonging to a local man, David Staszak.[4] Its computer control system included an AT&T PC 6300.[5]

Release

Twister's Revenge! was released on VHS by Video First Entertainment of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin in 1988.[6] It was also released in West Germany, under the title Ein Supertruck auf Gangsterjagd! ("A Supertruck on a Gangster-Hunt!")[7] and in Japan.[8]

It was rereleased by Mill Creek Entertainment in 2006, as part of their "Drive-in Movie Classics" series.[9]

Reviews

1000 Misspent Hours and Counting awarded the film 2½ stars, noting that Mr. Twister's onboard AI was clearly a ripoff of Knight Rider's KITT and saying that the film had a "demented mismatch between tone and subject matter. The very idea of a funny vigilante revenge film is bizarre. I hasten to emphasize that Twister’s Revenge! is not a parody of Death Wish wannabes, but rather a Death Wish wannabe that is also a comedy."

Josiah Chiappelli gave the film 3/5 on his "Hipster Holy Grail" series.[10]

Twister's Revenge! was featured on a 2019 episode of RedLetterMedia's "Best of the Worst" series.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Twister's Revenge (1987)". BFI. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019.
  2. ^ "Twister's Revenge! (1987)" – via letterboxd.com.
  3. ^ Rausch, Andrew J. (1 July 2013). "Gods of Grindhouse: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers". BearManor Media – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "IMCDb.org: "Twister's Revenge!, 1988": cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles". www.imcdb.org.
  5. ^ "Starring the Computer - Twister's Revenge". www.starringthecomputer.com.
  6. ^ Twister's revenge. 5 May 1987. OCLC 23261395 – via Open WorldCat.
  7. ^ Seeßlen, Georg; Jung, Fernand (17 February 2010). Horror: Grundlagen des populären Films. Schüren Verlag. ISBN 9783894727932 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Rausch, Andrew J. (1 July 2013). "Gods of Grindhouse: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers". BearManor Media – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Dreyfus, Larry; Arthur, William; Rebane, Bill; West, Dean; Orr, Meredith; Smith, David Alan; Gjernes, Jay; Luka, Richard; Mill Creek Entertainment; OverDrive, Inc (5 May 2019). "Twister's revenge". Mill Creek Entertainment, LLC – via Open WorldCat. {{cite web}}: |first10= has generic name (help)
  10. ^ "Hipster Holy Grail: Twister's Revenge (1988)".
  11. ^ "Best of the Worst: Twister's Revenge". Red Letter Media.

External links

  • Twister's Revenge! at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Twister's Revenge 1987 Full Film on YouTube
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