The Real Thing

Engrossing, and palpably groovy film-within-a-film about the cavalier, Grindhouse verite filmmaking of an especially exploitative exploitation director preparing and shooting his break-out, partially improvised Biker movie, wherein some of the boisterously improvised scenes with the increasingly reactionary townsfolk provides some dangerously realistic action! Director, Gerald Seth Sindell does a bang up job capturing the rising tensions within this desolated dust bowl town! Convincingly acted by a game cast, with one of the highlights being a gonzo sequence showing the revved up biker's trashing a sleepy town's convenience store yielding some unexpectedly dramatic results! Sindell's adventurous 'Teenager' concludes with a surprisingly contemplative climax, and the film's jaunty theme is a penetrating, eminently diggable ear-worm! More observant Grindhouse fans may have noticed that Adult film icon, John Holmes, makes two brief, uncharacteristically chaste appearances!