Roadwarrior Ripoffs??????????

[Kevin Eglin]

Does anyone know any really good or really bad Roadwarrior Ripoff movies????????



Thanks,
Kevin E.

[peter johnson]

Australia and New Zeland cranked out dozens of these after the success of the Mel Gibson franchise.
Most of the better bad ones have a number in the title:
Warlords of the 21st Century (Actually quite good, if you ignore the obviously hollow "armored" truck blowing up when it goes over the cliff -- you can see the daylight through the cheesecloth & metal mesh).
Panic in the Year 3000 -- This is a real flaming cheeseball!  Olivia Hussey stars in a confused mish-mosh of The Most Dangerous Game & Road Warrior, as rich bastards of the future hunt down political prisoners for fun.  There's a red-eyed werewolf mutant for no reason whatever that's to be used as a hunting dog, but doesn't end up doing much of anything, and then disappears without explanation(!!).  Hussey does a "nude" shower scene at a political prisoner camp (Boy!  Is this thing CAMP), courtesy of an uncredited body double with much larger breasts.  Easily one of the worst things I've seen -- ever -- but I sat through it on the big screen when it came out, right to the bitter end . . . haven't thought about it in years.
As Vermin says, it's why we love this board . . .
peter johnson/denny crane

[trekgeezer]

Steel Dawn (1987) Patrick Swayze, Anthony Zerbe

Kinda like Road Warrior, but this time they are fighting over water. Also features Swayze's real life wife.

[Vermin Boy]

Escape from the Bronx (aka Escape 2000) is a good one (and easy to find), though it's technically more of a Warriors ripoff.

Also, if you want to see a genuinely spiffy postmodern take on the genre, track down a copy of Six String Samurai.

[Master Blaster]

It's more of an Escape From NewYork and Warriors Ripoff but last night I finally watched 1990 Bronx Warriors. It's a total cheese fest but a hell of alot of fun. It's about the Bronx in 1990 being completely lawless and overrun with homoerotic street gangs. The hero is the leader of "the Riders", a biker gang. It's kinda cool because they used real Hells Angels as extras. You can tell because they're all still wearing their "Hells Angels" jackets even though their supposedly "Riders". Oh and the rival gang, a bunch of guys in white german helmets (Nazi stuff seems to pop up throughout the movie), gigantic puffy 70's disco style "V" vests, hockey sticks and get this, roller skates. Not the most intimidating bunch. If you can handle the really bad stuff you gotta see it. I heard there's an MST3K version out their somewhere.

[BeyondTheGrave]

Yeah I saw that one too Blaster. I remember one part when the biker with the glasses the one the betrayed them fell off his bike and the next scene he was fine.  that had me rollling.

You can’t give it, you can’t even buy it, and you just don’t get it!-Aeon Flux

[Master Blaster]

Oh man, me too. He ate it really friggin hard. It did'nt look intentional either. Just reminding me of that makes me crack up.

[Master Blaster]

How bout that, Escape from the Bronx just happens to be the sequel to 1990 Bronx Warrios I posted about at the exact same time you did below.

[Vermin Boy]

Whoa... I didn't even know Escape from the Bronx was a sequel, though I suppose that explains the rushed backstory. I think I've even seen the original for sale, and just assumed they were the same movie. Learn something new every day! (Oh, and it was the sequel that got the MST3K treatment, by the by)

[Gerry]

WATERWORLD ... the biggest budget ROAD WARRIOR rip off of all time.

[Yaddo 42]

After a little digging around, here's some films I know and some titles of RW-ripoffs I've heard of.

Neon City -  1991 Michael Ironside, Vanity, Lyle Alzado post-apocalyptic road trip/quest for safety. Kind of "The Road Warrior meets Stagecoach".

2020 Texas Gladiators - never seen it.

Equalizer 2000 - Richard Norton fights badguys using an M-16/M203 with extra tubes attached making it a supergun of some sort. Worth seeking out.

Dune Warriors - "Road Warrior meets Yojimbo" features David Carradine recycling costumes and props from "Circle of Iron" and "The Warrior and the Sorceress"

Warlords - Carradine and Fred Olen Ray. I've seen parts of it years ago, but remember little.

Warriors of the Wasteland - never seen it

Phoenix the Warrior - Women fight it out in dune buggies on post-apocalyptic Earth. A minor cheese classic.

The Empire of Ash series - There were at least three, I've only seen the second one starring William Smith. It was kind of dull and included some kind of annoying cutesy talking robot vehicle.

Hell Comes to Frogtown - Classic cheese!!! Only vaguely "Road Warrior"-ish, but worth finding. Mutant Frog people. Roddy Piper is forced to wear a boobytrapped codpiece with a proximity alarm to prevent him escaping from his new "duties" of impregnating the remaining fertile human females. If by some chance you haven't seen it, you should.

[JohnL]

What about Rollerblade Warriors?

[BoyScoutKevin]

"2020 Texas Gladiators" I have seen it, more then once. But as many times as I've seen it, it is impssible to describe. Maybe that was because it was directed by the late Italian director, Joe D;Amato, or the man who apparently operated under more then fifty aliases. Some of them female and some of them Asian.  The film is still one of my favorite guilty pleasures.

[Menard]

2020 TEXAS GLADIATORS also features some recognizable faces from other Italian movies. Al Cliver, who can be seen in Fulci's ZOMBIE and THE BEYOND; and Donald O'brien, perhaps most memorable as DOCTOR BUTCHER M.D.