If you were a genre fan in the ‘70s, you had so many to choose from: Horror, Blaxploitation, Kung-Fu, Action – you name it, it was probably done, and without shame. Along the way some bright bulb (or someone way too ambitious) decided to try and combine them all into one film, and the result is Devil’s Express (1976), a jaw dropping stew that’s hard to classify but easy to love.
Filmed as The Phantom of the Subway, Devil’s Express was released in early September by Howard Mahler Films (Death Promise) to drive-ins and grindhouses across the U.S. Made for $100,000, it was trotted out again in ’79 and renamed Gang Wars to capitalize on the success of The Warriors. (Spoiler alert: it didn’t match that film’s grosses.) Made for everyone so therefore ultimately no one, it wears its schizophrenia like a cello case covered in Black Flag stickers.
Filmed as The Phantom of the Subway, Devil’s Express was released in early September by Howard Mahler Films (Death Promise) to drive-ins and grindhouses across the U.S. Made for $100,000, it was trotted out again in ’79 and renamed Gang Wars to capitalize on the success of The Warriors. (Spoiler alert: it didn’t match that film’s grosses.) Made for everyone so therefore ultimately no one, it wears its schizophrenia like a cello case covered in Black Flag stickers.
- 10/6/2018
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
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