Hot Rods to Hell (DVD)

I bought this for my neighbor. He really enjoyed it

Watched this with my family as a kid. So great to own it!!

I love this movie from my childhood.

HRTH was shown on network TV in the sixties,I watched it as an 11yr old. Couldnt imagine a better way to live. Driving a fast,cool car with a sidekick and a pretty girl dangling off of the roll bar.The film was an overacting mess from the first scene,but the themes of redemption,self discovery and rising to the occasion like a true man has to are timeless and actually endearing.After forty yrs I saw it again last night. It is beyonddescribing to people not of that era. Just buy some pizza and beer and invite everyone.Almost every performance in the film is laughable,but there remains a thread of sincerity that wins you over in the end.The idea of evil young men terrorizing innocent americans to the tune of surf music is something everyone needs to experience. I feel it is a great way to show viewers how out of touch the hollywood people were with the fast changing times. The overbearing cop,the obnoxious drunk,the whiney teenage girl,the thoughtless playboy town brat,the ultimate insquare parents,the seedy hotel owner,it just manages to get better and better.You also get a glimpse at period hot rod equipment.The poor beaten 1958 Corvette used in the film is smoking so bad you wonder how they made it to the end of the film.Its an hour and a half look at another time,a far,far more innocent time. A time where clean cut kids threatened to dance,flirt,make some noise and,God forbid,drive over the speed limit out in the middle of nowhere. Seemed sosinister in 1966.Almost comforting,now.Buy the DVD,its wonderful.

The other reviewers really don't get the appeal. HRTH has been a favorite BAD movie of mine since I was a teenager in the 70s, when I first saw it on late-night TV. It was gloopy even then. Sure, Dana is awful, wooden and pedantic. But that is what fans of this movie really love. And how about Duke's immortal line when he tell's Laurie Mock's character that her father better not take over Dailey's Motel (which also contains the "cool kids" nightclub hangout) or "No one's going to have any fun...not even you." Heavens what a threat!The movie is chock full of dopey lines and Jeanne Crain's overacting is a real hoot. Anyone who is buying this should be doing so with their eyes wide open, knowing that while the makers had no idea they were making a Camp Classic, that is just what this is. Filmmakers could not make it as unintentionally funny, if they tried. In fact, I've heard that someone is trying to remake the film under it's original title: "52 Miles to Terror." If they ever do, I'll probably see it, knowing that they'll update it and make it like the "Fast and Furious." And I'll probably be a little sad, as the original, for all its flaws has an undercurrent of naivite that is endearing. A modern remake will be brutal and remorseless, much like our world is today.

This is one of the top three funniest movies I have ever seen. The other two were comedies. Seems that almost everything needed to produce a quality film was missing when this bad gem was thrown together. Leading man in the 3rd stage of alcoholism, a terrible director, no budget, no time, the Mickey Rooney Jr. Combo supplying the music. Andrews obviously couldn't remember lines and sometimes seems to forget how to even speak correctly.The budget was so low (made for TV) that it seems they ended up using takes that would normally have been done over.I wouldn't lay into Dana Andrews so hard but I know that he beat the bottle sometime after this was made and he helped many, many people to do the same. I also belong to a HR2H club but there are only three of us. This DVD is wonderful in that when the movie made it back to the small screen via late night tv movies, many scenes had been cut to make room for commercials. Now they're all here for anyone to enjoy. I swear we have found over 100 things wrong in this movie, each one of them worth a laugh if you like that sort of stuff. After all, what's left for kicks?

Hot Rods to Hell is just plain fun and campy humor and reminds me of the older days when things were insipidly naive. I've seen this movie at least 10 times and still laugh.

I bought it because it's been one of my all-time favorite movies since I was a kid, and I've never had a real copy of it, just the ones I recorded off TV. This movie is a great companion to 'Riot on Sunset Strip', which also stars Mimsy Farmer and Laurie Mock, only the good girl-bad girl roles are reversed! It has great `60s decor and clothes and hair, and man do I dig the scene at The Arena! I always wanted top hang out there. It has cheesy acting by Dana Andrews, as a way too jittery man! And his wife is annoying too. There are some great characters, and racing, making this a J.D. cult movie collection favorite. It was originally made for tv, but the subject matter was deemed too "mature", so it was issued to drive-ins a year or two later. It doesn't look like a made for TV movie, it's much better.

Was kind of excited when it first arrived and then got let down by the Camera in the Front of the car. Boring, Boring, not to mention the same red vet with the girl in the middle. If you got a bad back, stay out of the drivers seat, stay home , don't buy into the motel business. As far as cars are concerned a lot of reviewers are so excited by the cars they see. And i say yes, there are cars there but you only see them for a little while. Besides the vet , there is really no focus on hot rods . I was expecting much more focus on Hot rods, not just one red vette.

It's okay but not quite as 'bad' as I had heard. I prefer the juvenile delinquent films of the 1950s actually. 1960s JD films like this seem to be too cynical and lack that naivete that makes the earlier films so delightful. It's fun though and most of the cast is enjoyably overwrought. Overall it feels really dated and is a real artifact of the mid '60s - if you like that era I would definitely recommend it but if you don't then you'll probably want to avoid this.

The cars are the stars

pic q is so good

très bon