Normally the music credits are reserved for deep in the end credits of a movie. You might hear a song in a scene and not want to sit through 7 minutes of text to figure out the band. Mad Foxes got me hooked on the opening credits when they listed Krokus as part of the soundtrack. They even used the band’s logo. I saw the Swiss heavy metal rockers when they played with Def Leppard and Jon Butcher Axis on the Pyromania tour. If you want to impress me with a tale of a man versus bikers, crank up the Krokus.
Hal (Hell of the Living Dead‘s José Gras) is having the night of his life. He’s cruising with his girl Babsy (Una virgen para Calígula‘s Andrea Albani) in a white Corvette with cool racing stripes. It’s her 18th birthday. Things go wrong when he ticks off a motorcycle gang where the leader is dressed in an inappropriate World War II uniform. This leads to a bit of drag racing that has a biker slam into park cars and go flying. His bike ends up in a ball of fire. Instead of dealing with the cops, Hal and Babsy hit a disco for a fun night. It completely skips Hal’s mind that he drives a car that sticks out in a Spanish city. When they return to the car, the biker gang pounces on them. They beat up Hal and do worse to Babsy. The next day Hal gets his pal who runs a martial arts dojo to help him get revenge on the bikers. The outlaws set fire to their department member in an ancient arena. Hal arrives with his crew that are ready to chop up the bikers. They even go further when they use a gang member’s knife to give him a sex change operation. After the revenge, Hal goes home and hooks up with a stewardess. But the biker gang isn’t done with Hal.
The best part about the film is Hal is such an entitled cad. This is not the usual innocent man caught up in the wrong crowd who gets pushed too far. He doesn’t seem to care that the biker gang is after him after their first encounter. He wants to party with Babsy. Even after what Babsy has gone through with the gang; Hal has no problem hooking up with a stewardess and later picking up a woman at the nudist beach to take to his parents’ house for a hook up. He has zero care about Babsy. He’s not a good boyfriend. He has no real concern about what other people have suffered because the motorcycle gang is looking for him. We’re left pondering if we really want to see Hal get his final revenge on the motorcycle gang or if humanity would be better off if he gets curb stomped. Not that the motorcycle gang is the real victims here. You do root for everyone in the film to die. This is not the formulaic revenge flick.
The big shocker of Mad Foxes is that Paul Grau only directed one other film (Six Swedish Girls In The Alps). He made a great euro exploitation flick. The motorcycle gang is extra sleezy. There’s a brutality to the senseless violence and plenty of scenes where the cast strips down. There’s even a moment when a guy gets blown up on the toilet where you get both. The film keeps amping the exploitation moments by not holding back to make things “nice” for the audiences. This movie is made for the crowd who want to see violence and carnality with comic moments. Mad Foxes is an insane wild ride that has no brakes.
The Video is 1.85:1 anamorphic. There’s a “romantic” scene in a bathtub that lets you see how nasty the water is. The Audio is an English dub in DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 2.0. There’s a Spanish track in DTS-HD 2.0. Things sound good when Krokus kicks in. The movie is subtitled in English.
Audio Commentary from film critics Nanni Cobretti and Merlyn Roberts. Has the trying to remember how they first came across the film since it wasn’t released properly. He explains the words on the bottom of the Corvette. They also talk about Krokus. They do question Hal’s non-reaction to killing the motorcyclist at the start.
Rigid slipcase w/ artwork by Justin Coffee to make this look extra classy on your shelf.
Poster (folded) that’s suitable for hanging.
The Untold Story of Robert O’Neal (46:18) is an interview with actor José Gras at a park. He talks about how as a teenager he wanted to come to America to be an actor except he realized leaving Spain could get him in trouble with military service.
Erwin and the Foxes (22:30) brings together Producer Erwin C. Dietrich and actors Eric Falk and Helmi Sigg discuss Mad Foxes. They were able to go wild in the film as actors. Director Paul Grau didn’t overwhelm them with direction. He let the actors improvise. There is talk about making Island Women. They point out that their costumes were altered for exterior scenes to not upset outsiders. Falk shares an interesting biker story. Paul Grau played the head of the martial arts school. This was supposed to be a sequel to Stingray starring Robert Mitchum’s son Christopher. While Mad Foxes did well in Europe theatrically distributers demanded cuts for the VHS market. Dietrich wouldn’t slice it up. Eric Falk lets us know what he really took away from this experience.
Mad Eric (8:50) is a solo interview with actor Eric Falk. He talks about his own encounters with a motorcycle gang when he was a bouncer. He talks about the actors while looking at clips from the movie. A few actors really were Hell’s Angels members. He shares a few kinky tales from his life. This was his first acting gig.
Nazi Fox Bikers Must Die (19:50) is a video essay by Troy Howarth. He goes into how Mad Foxes embraces so many elements of exploitation cinema and how the film isn’t boring. We get a history of key exploitation films and how it relates to Mad Foxes. There is also how the death of Franco opened up exploitation cinema in Spain.
Image Gallery (1:51) includes posters and lobby cards (where it is called Stingray 2).
Trailer (3:27) goes straight to the extreme aspects of the film.
Cauldron Films present Mad Foxes (Limited Edition). Directed by Paul Grau. Screenplay by Hans R. Walthard, Paul Grau & Melvin Quiñones. Starring José Gras, Laura Premica, Andrea Albani, Peter Saunders, Brian Billings, Eric Falk, Helmi Sigg & Garry Membrini. Running Time: 80 minutes. Rating: Rated R. Release Date: October 14, 2025.
