Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Scott LeBrun Future soft-core auteur Zalman King does his best David Hess, snarling and sleazing his way through this satisfying exploitation feature. The King plays Al; Al and his less depraved brother Pete (Robert Porter) are bikers who encounter a teacher and her four comely female students on the road. The teacher is Ms. Tenny (Brenda Fogarty), who is taking the girls on a field trip. Circumstances soon lead Al and Pete to bring the gals to an abandoned farmhouse. After committing a murder, the two of them realize that they can't really afford to let the gals live. But first, they're going to have some fun..."Trip with the Teacher" was the sole filmmaking effort for writer / producer / director Earl Barton, ordinarily a dancer / choreographer, so this does seem like an odd choice of material for him. But he makes it work, and the movie is gripping in its tension and sleaze factor. Voyeurs will be pleased to see the clothes come off the gals with some regularity. And the situation is compelling, with the unlikelihood of any saviours coming to the rescue making for a true ordeal for the ladies. Their best bet is with a nice-guy biker named Jay (Robert Gribbin, "Don't Go Near the Park"), who'd made the acquaintance of Al & Pete earlier in the day by offering them some assistance. And adding some unintentional humour is the fact that Tina (Jill Voight) clearly can't run with any speed or sense of urgency. It's no wonder that Al is able to catch up with her.The tone is established fairly early on, with Al deciding to punish an old service station attendant (Edward Cross) basically for being a crotchety fart. The movie isn't totally without laughs, but it mostly concentrates on being grim and gritty.Fogarty is wonderfully spunky, Gribbin is quite likable (as is Jack Driscoll as Marvin the bus driver), and the girls are appealing, especially Dina Ousley ('Bronk') as tough, experienced Bobbie. But "Trip with the Teacher" truly belongs to the marvellously scuzzy King, who's a bad guy par excellence.A worthy viewing for any lover of 1970s drive-in cinema.Eight out of 10.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS*** Going on a bus trip through the scenic American south-west desert the girls and their teacher never dreamed what they were getting into when this trio of bikers drove up besides them. It was the good natured Jay who had fixed one of the biker's, Al & Pete, wheel who soon became a hit with the girls, Julie Bobbie Tina & Pam, and their strict and by the books teacher Miss Tenny. It was Al the psycho of the group who had other ideas and manipulated his spineless brother Pete into kidnapping the bunch including Jay later in the movie. That's after he murdered a gas station attendant for dissing him, by spilling gasoline in his bike, by letting a car lift crush him to death. In a horny Al then trying to rape the girls as well as their teacher the heroic bus driver Marvin in trying to protect his passengers ended up getting his neck broken by a crazed Al running , with his bike , over it.Now at the mercy of the two brother bikers and in the middle of the desert Al against his brother Pete's meek advice starts to really get down to business that eventually leads to one of the girls Tina making a brake for it. Tina trapped by Al in the middle of nowhere where she's then brutally beaten and suffocated, by rubbing her head in the sand, by a maniacal Al leaving her body to float away in a nearby stream. It was the only man around the good natured Jay to save the girls who ended up, with Pete chasing him, falling down a cliff ending up either dead or at the least breaking his skull as well as arms & legs.****SPOILERS**** With the by now totally sex crazed and out of his skull, he seemed to be having epileptic fits all throughout the movie, Al having the run of the place, in the shack where he was holding the girls and teacher hostage, it looked like if their days if not hours were numbered. But unknown to Al as well as his brother Pete things were about to turn around like a boomerang on them and put an end to their sinister plans as well themselves. 1970's exploitation movie that had more going for it then the usual likewise films where the both victims as well as victimizer, even psycho Al, came across as real and complicated human beings not just emotionless clay pigeons, used for target practice, who lives or deaths had no real effect on those of us watching. Even the villains like Pete, who was left hanging, evoked emotion in him not really wanting to do any harm to anyone but having him manipulated by his crazed brother Al. As for Psycho Al despite being a mentally unbalanced lunatic his gut spilling death at the end of the film was, even though he personally had really nothing to do with it,about the best thing, of many, in the entire movie.

trashgang This was a mediocre grindhouse flick for me. If it wasn't for the fame of Zalman King I guess you wouldn't have seen it that much. Zalman became famous in the eighties for producing erotic flicks. Most of the actresses played in grindhouse flicks but Cathy Worthington was the one who made it into the scene even appearing in Dallas, Jill Voight was seen in Friday The 13th Part 2. As I said, grindhouse and of that kind with the bad bikers in it. We had so many in it but due Zalman this do stands out because Zalman really carries this flick. It is a bit slow and campy sometimes, just watch the tow scene with the bus. The quality of the movie itself was really bad, even on DVD, a lot of scratches, bad sound and hiss. It really takes you 45 minutes before the girls are getting a bad trip with their teacher after their bus broke down and the bikers come in handy. Of course as a grindhouse there is a bit of nudity but not to mention. Not really my cup but a must have due the well known reasons explained earlier.

amosduncan_2000 I finally saw "Trip With Teacher" on my wonderful five dollar K Mart "Grindhouse Greats" collection. Some observations that have not yet been made. There are some complex, if strange ideas bouncing around this seemingly real dumb movie. First, Zalman's character, if viewed objectively, seems to be trying to stay out of trouble, yet circumstance seems to keep dragging him and his annoying little laugh into trouble. Early on he makes a play and tries to grab the the teacher's breast, which might have been enough to have them write him off. Yet they keep INVOLVING him..... The "hero" is a real wuss who could basically saved the day at anytime. His survival of a (well staged) fall to his death is not believable. But if he got up, why doesn't he go for the cops in the first place.The strange scene where Zalman smothers the nicest of the good girls to death, and seems to have an a sexual climax without undressing. Murder is sex to this guy, I guess. The teacher is all happy at the end and seems to have completely forgotten about the murdered girl or the dead bus driver for that matter. Is She the real bad guy? All in all, an interesting low budget affair.