Dec 13, 2007
Hell Ride was recently announced as one of the midnight premieres at Sundance in January. Larry Bishop stars as badass biker Pistolero, who along with his brother The Gent (Michael Madsen) and Comanche (Eric Balfour), hit the road to avenge the death of Pistolero’s old lady Cherokee Kisum, by the 666ers, a rival motorcycle gang. Dennis Hopper and Vinnie Jones also star. Already this film has the feel of the old 50-60′s biker cinema feel and we’re welcoming it with open wallet.
So, lets list the plusses on this film: 1) Quentin Tarantino-so do we need to explain more? 2) Larry Bishop (son of Joey Bishop) wrote and directed this himself. If your not familiar with Larry, he’s a died in the wool biker. So, not only does it have the cool factor, it’s got a “bikers movie, made by a biker”…what a novel idea! 3) Michael Madsen. If you didn’t see him in Kill Bill Vol. 2 (as Budd) and Sin City (as Bob) you should. It will be interesting to see him as a badass.
Granted, there aren’t alot of good role model movies for bikers out now, (unless you count Wild Hogs as a viable motorcycle movie-yeah, right), so we’ll settle for what we can get. Which looks like alot of action, riding and killing. We’ll look forward to seeing this on the big screen next year and seeing for ourselves.
