Trip with the Teacher is an amusingly inept exploitation movie which fails to build up any real sense of tension or suspense. Marred by a bad script and a terrible performance from Zalman King, this film succeeds more as comedy than thriller.
The film follows the travails of a teacher and her students, who for some reason are dressed like streetwalkers, as they get stuck in the middle of the desert when their bus breaks down. Unfortunately for them, a group of bikers show up, one helpful, the others less so.
The main problem with this film, other than its obvious plot, is the performance of Zalman King as the main sadistic biker. King overacts like his life depends on it, with the end result that he comes off more as a comic figure than a menacing villain. It does not help that his character appears to be narcoleptic, fall asleep just as he's starting to get imposing. His evil brother is an equally unimposing drunk.
There are a few scenes where the film manages to generate some menace, with a rather graphic rape scene being the most obvious. Brenda Fogarty, who plays the teacher, gives a worthwhile performance; it's a pity that all of her other work appears to have been in soft core pornography. Still, it doesn't redeem the whole package.
I got this film as part of a multi-DVD "drive in pack" at less than a dollar a film. This film wasn't even worth that.
The film follows the travails of a teacher and her students, who for some reason are dressed like streetwalkers, as they get stuck in the middle of the desert when their bus breaks down. Unfortunately for them, a group of bikers show up, one helpful, the others less so.
The main problem with this film, other than its obvious plot, is the performance of Zalman King as the main sadistic biker. King overacts like his life depends on it, with the end result that he comes off more as a comic figure than a menacing villain. It does not help that his character appears to be narcoleptic, fall asleep just as he's starting to get imposing. His evil brother is an equally unimposing drunk.
There are a few scenes where the film manages to generate some menace, with a rather graphic rape scene being the most obvious. Brenda Fogarty, who plays the teacher, gives a worthwhile performance; it's a pity that all of her other work appears to have been in soft core pornography. Still, it doesn't redeem the whole package.
I got this film as part of a multi-DVD "drive in pack" at less than a dollar a film. This film wasn't even worth that.