A throwback to the biker films of the '60s and '70s, "Hell Ride" is exactly what it says it is.

Whether its everything-goes bombast will delight even the most flexible audience members enamored with B-movie genre films remains to be seen.

Larry Bishop, who starred in multiple biker films three decades ago, was appointed by Quentin Tarantino -- who is executive producer -- to write, direct and star in "Hell Ride." The story is of Pistolero, played by Bishop, leader of the Victors, a biker gang intent on revenge against the other top-dog biker clan, the 666s, who recently whacked one of the Victor members. The reason for the kill is buried somewhere in a brutal event that took place 30 years earlier.

The two gangs take turns one-upping each other as each looks for an advantage. As they travel dusty roads, frequenting trailer parks, beer joints and roadstop stores, the gangs encounter a variety of strange characters, many of them naked women who probably can't be trusted. Much interplay between the bikers and these women ensues.

It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt, and many folks get hurt in "Hell Ride." The film uses Tarantino-style tricks of flashbacks to explain the current-time storyline, but there simply isn't much of the electric energy that fuels a good Tarantino film, so "Hell Ride" becomes more mild relic and half-baked homage than genre reinvention.

C

"Hell Ride"

Starring: Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, Eric Balfour

Director: Larry Bishop

Studio: Dimension Films

Rated: NR

RT: 83 minutes