She-Devils on Wheels

She-Devils on Wheels (1968) is the story of a South Florida all-girl biker gang called the Man-Eaters who race motorcycles for first choice on the "stud line" back at their headquarters. New recruit Karen sneaks out of her house to ride with the girls but must continually prove her loyalty to the gang who, led by the Queen, also includes members knicknamed Whitey, Honeypot, Supergirl, Poodle, Ginger Snap, among others. The film was made by Herschell Gordon Lewis, one of the all-time low budget kings of filmmaking (along with Roger Corman and Russ Meyer), better known for films like Blood Feast (1963), Monster a Go-Go (1965), A Taste of Blood (1967), and the Gore Gore Girls (1975). Partly in response to charges of misogyny in his gore-based splatter films, Lewis devised the all-girl gang who use men for their pleasure, defend their turf against rival gangs, protect their own, and will fight, brawl, maim, and kill if necessary. The movie was filmed on location in the small rural town of Medley, Florida which is just outside the Everglades in greater Miami. The diminuitive and underaged mascot of the gang, Honeypot, who rides a scooter rather than a motorcycle before winning her longed-for initiation, was played by Nancy Lee Nobel. Nobel also starred in Lewis' Just For the Hell of It, also released in 1968, about a deviant group of social misfits who terrorize the residents of a small South Florida town. The She-Devils on Wheels theme song "Get Off the Road" features the refrain "We are the hellcats that noboby likes, Man-Eaters on motorbikes!" It was covered by the Cramps (with Ivy singing) and is now included on the cd version of the 1985 classic A Date With Elvis.