Punk Vacation

May. 01,1990      
Rating:
3.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A peaceful California town is shaken after the brutal murder of diner owner by a gang of vicious punks. When the daughter of the slain man attempts to avenge her father’s death, she’s held hostage by the gang resulting in an epic battle between punks and rednecks.

Sandra Bogan as  Lisa
Louis Waldon as  Sheriff Virgil

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Reviews

BootDigest
1990/05/01

Such a frustrating disappointment

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SparkMore
1990/05/02

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

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PiraBit
1990/05/03

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

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Usamah Harvey
1990/05/04

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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ksf-2
1990/05/05

So much weirdness! Strange camera angles, slow motion, color filters. Bad edits and the world's longest pauses in between lines. P.V. opens with a dude on a moto losing his forty cents in the soda machine. The owner of the diner shoos him away with a shotgun. So the angry dude returns with his gang... and it goes south from there. The gang, dressed in their 80s rock star hair and makeup, starts trouble then runs off to hide in the hills. One of their group, Billy, is still in the hospital, so they decide to stick around and help him escape. and a chick with a gun goes rock climbing to find the gang, in a dress! If they had cult classics back then, this should have been one. It's so lame, its funny. although no-where as creative as Rocky Horror. The ONE and only film directed by Stanley Lewis. This was also the one and only role for a whole lot of the cast. and this one is classified as a Video on IMDb... not sure what the difference is. It's pretty funny, as low-budget horror films go. Vincent Price was still around when this was made... i kept waiting for him to appear!

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Woodyanders
1990/05/06

The tranquility of a small California hamlet gets ripped asunder after diner owner Mr. Kemper gets brutally murdered by a gang of vicious punks. Kemper's feisty eldest daughter Lisa (a solid and appealing performance by Sandra Bogan) vows to get revenge on the punks for killing her dad, but things go awry after Lisa winds up being abducted by the gang. This leads to an all-out war between the punks and the redneck town residents.Director Stanley Lewis, working from a compact script by Lance Smith and Harvey Richelson, relates the enjoyable story at a reasonably snappy pace, treats the nifty premise like a modern Western, further spruces things up with a funny sense of amiably quirky humor, and pulls out the stirring stops for the lively and exciting second half. Moreover, the colorful array of punks are drawn with a bit more depth and humanity than one might expect, with especially stand-out work from Roxanne Rogers as fiercely loyal and formidable moll ringleader Ramrod, Billy Piera as whiny peacenik Feggy, and Wayne Chema as fearsome skinhead Venny. In addition, the hick townies are a hilarious collection of bumbling dolts; Louis Waldon in particular elicits a lot of the film's biggest laughs with his gut-busting broad portrayal of gruff and irate commie-bashing buffoon Sheriff Virgil. Stephen Fiachi contributes a likable turn as earnest deputy Steve Reed while Don Martin registers well as the easygoing Deputy Sheriff Don. Daryn Okada's sharp cinematography gives this picture an impressively polished look, with excellent artful use of a crane and some snazzy scene transitions. The funky-throbbing score by Ed Grenga and Ross Vannelli hits the rousing spot. An immensely fun flick.

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Splooge Macdonald
1990/05/07

This movie changed my life. It has a compelling story line with excellent acting. The director's vision takes the viewer on an endless adventure that will make you laugh, cry, and jump out of your seat.The movie takes fight club and Big and mixes them up into the best kind of movie soup you have ever slurped. I challenge anyone on the face of the earth and beyond to find a more heartbreakingly good story than this.Chris Gaw made this movie what it is with his soul patch and corny jokes keeping everyone going.If you love punks.....and love them more when they are on vacation, you will love Punk Vacation.Please go out and purchase this movie.

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EyeAskance
1990/05/08

A quaint, sleepy California farming community is the weekend destination for a savage gang of ridiculously over-the-top "punkers". An elderly fellow ends up dead the very moment these hoodwinks come rolling in, and his distraught daughter vows bloody vengeance. Before long, every goat-ropin' hee-haw hayseeder in town is facing-off against the no-good poseur-punk delinquents.A laggard little squirt of "direct-to-video" trash, made more-or-less endurable by a small serving of unpremeditated chuckles. That said, it still stands as one of the more conversant releases from the knuckleheads at notorious Rae-Don Video.The wardrobe supervisor for this flick apparently drew inspiration from the "punked-out" guest-villains of 80s-era cop shows, and their comically overaccessorized punk pastiche incorporating heavy chains, cartoonishly multicolored frightwigs, and face-painted lightning bolts(Vivienne Westwood meets Sid and Marty Krofft?). These misrepresentative Vaudvillian caricatures are always spuriously amusing to see, but not enough so to make PUNK VACATION worthwhile.3.5/10...watchable, though not nearly as much fun as I wanted it to be.

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