Uriah43 This movie begins with 4 young high school girls and their teacher named "Miss Tenney" (Brenda Fogerty) who are traveling in a school bus on a camping trip to an isolated part of California. On the way they encounter 3 motorcyclists who become interested in them. One of the young men named "Jay" (Robert Gribbin) is a decent fellow but the other two, "Al" (Zalman King) and "Pete" (Robert Porter) are hardened criminals who have recently gotten out of prison and the sight of these females brings out the worst in them. So when the school bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere they seize the opportunity with great relish. Now, rather than disclose any more of the movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say this film came with several others in a 2-dvd set called "Drive-In Cult Classics" and I was hoping to find at least one or two good movies in the whole bunch. Unfortunately, this wasn't one of them. Not only were there a number of slow scenes but some of the others were completely ridiculous as well--especially the ending. In any case, while I have certainly seen much worse films in my time, I thought this one might have potential. I was wrong. Accordingly, I rate it as below average.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS*** Going on a bus trip through the scenic American south-west desert the girls and their teacher never dreamed what they were getting into when this trio of bikers drove up besides them. It was the good natured Jay who had fixed one of the biker's, Al & Pete, wheel who soon became a hit with the girls, Julie Bobbie Tina & Pam, and their strict and by the books teacher Miss Tenny. It was Al the psycho of the group who had other ideas and manipulated his spineless brother Pete into kidnapping the bunch including Jay later in the movie. That's after he murdered a gas station attendant for dissing him, by spilling gasoline in his bike, by letting a car lift crush him to death. In a horny Al then trying to rape the girls as well as their teacher the heroic bus driver Marvin in trying to protect his passengers ended up getting his neck broken by a crazed Al running , with his bike , over it.Now at the mercy of the two brother bikers and in the middle of the desert Al against his brother Pete's meek advice starts to really get down to business that eventually leads to one of the girls Tina making a brake for it. Tina trapped by Al in the middle of nowhere where she's then brutally beaten and suffocated, by rubbing her head in the sand, by a maniacal Al leaving her body to float away in a nearby stream. It was the only man around the good natured Jay to save the girls who ended up, with Pete chasing him, falling down a cliff ending up either dead or at the least breaking his skull as well as arms & legs.****SPOILERS**** With the by now totally sex crazed and out of his skull, he seemed to be having epileptic fits all throughout the movie, Al having the run of the place, in the shack where he was holding the girls and teacher hostage, it looked like if their days if not hours were numbered. But unknown to Al as well as his brother Pete things were about to turn around like a boomerang on them and put an end to their sinister plans as well themselves. 1970's exploitation movie that had more going for it then the usual likewise films where the both victims as well as victimizer, even psycho Al, came across as real and complicated human beings not just emotionless clay pigeons, used for target practice, who lives or deaths had no real effect on those of us watching. Even the villains like Pete, who was left hanging, evoked emotion in him not really wanting to do any harm to anyone but having him manipulated by his crazed brother Al. As for Psycho Al despite being a mentally unbalanced lunatic his gut spilling death at the end of the film was, even though he personally had really nothing to do with it,about the best thing, of many, in the entire movie.

swinggold Ever since Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez produced and directed Death Proof and Planet of Terror, respectively, my interest in grindhouse and drive in movies has been ignited. I never knew much about these types of movies other than that they were pretty lame compared to big budget movies with high paid lead actors. My parents and aunts and uncles used to tell me stories about how these types of exploitation movies and theatrical outings were popular social gatherings on the weekends. I got "Trip with the Teacher" as part of a box set of 100 movies at a clearance sale of a department store. This movie starred a bunch of unknowns who either did very little after this, were featured in mostly the occasional TV series or had professional acting careers early on before this. Only the lead villain went on to any kind of stardom as an executive producer. Miss Tenny and her four female students are riding on a small school bus on a field trip to the desert to see some Indian ruins. While stopping for gas, they encounter three bikers, friendly Jay, Pete and his mysterious brother, Al. When their bus breaks down further down the road, the bikers stop to oversee the situation. While Jay wants to help, the sinister and psychotic Al has other plans for the young nubile women. From what I've already seen of these types of movies, this is a typical biker-dominates- women sexploitation movie. The girls are all cute and showing plenty of legs in shorts and skirts. But the story is pretty thin and isn't even as interesting as the average late 60s biker movies or any of the Billy Jack or William Smith movies that explored similar themes. It's just average drive-in flick that gets teens hot enough to fog up the windows of their cars a little then throws in a little showdown at the end. Lead baddie, Zalman King, went on to executive produce the popular cable series, "Red Shoe Diaries". Guess he's always had a thing for sexual themes, be it soft erotica or sexploitation.

robertmfreeman Let me assure you, I love watching bad movies, especially sleazy bad movies. As a pseudo-intellectual movie snob, nothing's more fun than 'slumming it' after watching a Coen brothers masterpiece.All that said, I can't enjoy this movie. It's not the graphic nature of the film, as the psychotic maniac 'Al' is hilarious in his attempts to appear menacing, especially while wearing his HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE sunglasses. He's equal parts funny and sleazy, making him a modern day 'Mack the Knife'.So why can I only give the movie a 5/10? Because with the sole exception of 'Creeping Terror', there has never been a movie where the victims in the film did less to save themselves. It goes beyond cowering in fear, and even stupidity. Hell, even the female equivalents of Forrest Gump would've known enough to all run away simultaneously in opposite directions.It doesn't matter if the villains are fully distracted, completely stoned, unarmed, or even asleep, the women in the film literally do nothing to escape. Hell, the villains didn't even tie them up! The villains don't even have guns or anything, so if every girl grabbed a large wooden stick, that'd pretty much be it for the bad guys.If you want to see a movie where a group of young women hang around, slightly bored, patiently waiting to each be raped and killed, then this is the movie for you.As for me, it's no surprise that the movie fails to be good, but it's shocking that it even fails as sleaze.