Trip With the Teacher (1975)
Four college girls are on a field trip with their teacher in the desert when their bus breaks down. Fortunately three bikers find them and offer to help them get to safety and their bus fixed. However things soon take a turn for the sleazy as the bikers harass the girls then assault the teacher, before towing the mini bus to a remote cabin and running over and murdering the driver before holding the girls hostage. How far should a teacher go to protect her students?
Famous for being one of sexploitation legend Zalman King's first features, Trip With the Teacher unfortunately gets a bit lost in the sea of sexploitation / horror / hostage films and pales in comparison with Last House on the Left, Last House on the Beach and House on the Edge of the Park among others, especially when you consider this films lack of those most exploitative elements - sex, nudity and violence.
The film itself is fine but nothing apart from King's deranged performance as Al the mad biker really stand out in this crowded genre, except the plot device of motorcyclists which together with the groovy seventies soundtrack somehow gives certain scenes an Easy Rider feel to them. This is more or less the film's main redeeming feature as it doesn't offer much in the way of dramatic tension or excitement, so if you own any of the films i've mentioned in these couple of paragraphs, you'd be far better watching them than this half hearted effort.
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