A gang of heinous nihilistic teenagers terrorize a small Florida town. It's up to token straight-laced nice kid Doug (likeable Rodney Bedell) to put a stop to these no-count punks.
The scenes with these adolescent hellions wreaking all kinds of havoc are positively hysterical: The unruly hoodlums destroy all kinds of stuff like chairs, mirrors, tables, and couches, splash water on folks, take a cane away from a blind man, stomp on a cripple hobbling on crutches, dump a baby in a garbage can (they trash the baby's carriage, too!), set newspapers on fire, and even rudely disrupt a baseball game being played in the park by little kids. Why do they commit these terrible things? Simply because they can, man! In a hilarious touch, the police prove to be hopelessly incompetent and are almost never around when they are needed most. Best of all, director Herschell Gordon Lewis treats the whole ridiculous thing with loveably misguided seriousness, which in turn only adds to the movie's considerable campy appeal. Toss in a catchy theme song called "Destruction," cap it all off with an appropriately bleak ending, and the net result sizes up as an absolute schlocky hoot and a half.
The scenes with these adolescent hellions wreaking all kinds of havoc are positively hysterical: The unruly hoodlums destroy all kinds of stuff like chairs, mirrors, tables, and couches, splash water on folks, take a cane away from a blind man, stomp on a cripple hobbling on crutches, dump a baby in a garbage can (they trash the baby's carriage, too!), set newspapers on fire, and even rudely disrupt a baseball game being played in the park by little kids. Why do they commit these terrible things? Simply because they can, man! In a hilarious touch, the police prove to be hopelessly incompetent and are almost never around when they are needed most. Best of all, director Herschell Gordon Lewis treats the whole ridiculous thing with loveably misguided seriousness, which in turn only adds to the movie's considerable campy appeal. Toss in a catchy theme song called "Destruction," cap it all off with an appropriately bleak ending, and the net result sizes up as an absolute schlocky hoot and a half.