NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

ksf-2 So much weirdness! Strange camera angles, slow motion, color filters. Bad edits and the world's longest pauses in between lines. P.V. opens with a dude on a moto losing his forty cents in the soda machine. The owner of the diner shoos him away with a shotgun. So the angry dude returns with his gang... and it goes south from there. The gang, dressed in their 80s rock star hair and makeup, starts trouble then runs off to hide in the hills. One of their group, Billy, is still in the hospital, so they decide to stick around and help him escape. and a chick with a gun goes rock climbing to find the gang, in a dress! If they had cult classics back then, this should have been one. It's so lame, its funny. although no-where as creative as Rocky Horror. The ONE and only film directed by Stanley Lewis. This was also the one and only role for a whole lot of the cast. and this one is classified as a Video on IMDb... not sure what the difference is. It's pretty funny, as low-budget horror films go. Vincent Price was still around when this was made... i kept waiting for him to appear!

Woodyanders The tranquility of a small California hamlet gets ripped asunder after diner owner Mr. Kemper gets brutally murdered by a gang of vicious punks. Kemper's feisty eldest daughter Lisa (a solid and appealing performance by Sandra Bogan) vows to get revenge on the punks for killing her dad, but things go awry after Lisa winds up being abducted by the gang. This leads to an all-out war between the punks and the redneck town residents.Director Stanley Lewis, working from a compact script by Lance Smith and Harvey Richelson, relates the enjoyable story at a reasonably snappy pace, treats the nifty premise like a modern Western, further spruces things up with a funny sense of amiably quirky humor, and pulls out the stirring stops for the lively and exciting second half. Moreover, the colorful array of punks are drawn with a bit more depth and humanity than one might expect, with especially stand-out work from Roxanne Rogers as fiercely loyal and formidable moll ringleader Ramrod, Billy Piera as whiny peacenik Feggy, and Wayne Chema as fearsome skinhead Venny. In addition, the hick townies are a hilarious collection of bumbling dolts; Louis Waldon in particular elicits a lot of the film's biggest laughs with his gut-busting broad portrayal of gruff and irate commie-bashing buffoon Sheriff Virgil. Stephen Fiachi contributes a likable turn as earnest deputy Steve Reed while Don Martin registers well as the easygoing Deputy Sheriff Don. Daryn Okada's sharp cinematography gives this picture an impressively polished look, with excellent artful use of a crane and some snazzy scene transitions. The funky-throbbing score by Ed Grenga and Ross Vannelli hits the rousing spot. An immensely fun flick.

EyeAskance A quaint, sleepy California farming community is the weekend destination for a savage gang of ridiculously over-the-top "punkers". An elderly fellow ends up dead the very moment these hoodwinks come rolling in, and his distraught daughter vows bloody vengeance. Before long, every goat-ropin' hee-haw hayseeder in town is facing-off against the no-good poseur-punk delinquents.A laggard little squirt of "direct-to-video" trash, made more-or-less endurable by a small serving of unpremeditated chuckles. That said, it still stands as one of the more conversant releases from the knuckleheads at notorious Rae-Don Video.The wardrobe supervisor for this flick apparently drew inspiration from the "punked-out" guest-villains of 80s-era cop shows, and their comically overaccessorized punk pastiche incorporating heavy chains, cartoonishly multicolored frightwigs, and face-painted lightning bolts(Vivienne Westwood meets Sid and Marty Krofft?). These misrepresentative Vaudvillian caricatures are always spuriously amusing to see, but not enough so to make PUNK VACATION worthwhile.3.5/10...watchable, though not nearly as much fun as I wanted it to be.

all_movies_suck Well... I like bad movies. So this isn't exactly the worst bad movie I've ever seen. It's sort of entertaining, at least, to laugh at a bit. But as for the "punk" part of "Punk Vacation"... uh, don't look here for punk rock stuff. This ain't no "Suburbia," not even "Class of 1984." At least those movies had actual punk bands perform in them, but "Punk Vacation" has a sort of mock-punk soundtrack and a bunch of pseudo-punkish people with bad makeup and studded wristbands. At least at one point the punks try to start a revolution by shooting all the cops in the small desert town they're "vacationing" in. Too bad they're stopped thanks to the "Predator"-style booby traps laid by the wily, sexy deputy. Good for a laugh as to what clueless Hollywood types think "punk" is all about.