horror, and unclassifiable strangeness, 
Something Weird Video also carved out a niche early on with its dedication to orphaned and often forgotten juvenile delinquent films. Popular among energetic teens and trembling adults alike, these postwar studies in young people running wild in big cities and suburbia were a good way to let off some psychic steam while delivering plenty of titillation and violence under the guise of socially responsible commentary. One of the most memorable of the SWV golden era batch is Teenage Gang Debs, which became a VHS favorite and made its way to DVD from them via Image Entertainment in 2001 as a double feature with 1964's Teen-Age Strangler.
studio films (Rebel Without a Cause, 
West Side Story) and back to cheapies again. Here you get a heavy dose of biker exploitation for good measure, with the makers clearly having been impressed by Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising a few years earlier. Several viewers and critics over the years have branded Terri as a kind of updated Lady Macbeth, which amusingly led to William Shakespeare being added as a co-writer for the film's press book! Conti is really something else here, and it's a shame her career didn't really go anywhere after this as she has the looks and screen presence to really pull off the role. The rest of the cast is mostly one-shot actors, though you do get substantial roles for a young Eileen Dietz (who went on to become a legend as Linda Blair's substitute for the more extreme moments of The Exorcist) and character actor Batis, who went on to The Forest and General Hospital. 
DTS-HD MA 2.0 English mono track, which sounds fine and quite a bit crisper than the DVD.
about the shooting locations and exploitation trends. She's spoken to a few of the actual actors from the film, too, which is fun to hear. This time to bonus co-feature here is 1959's The Rebel Set (71m18s ), a pretty standard jazzy crime film presented from a 16mm print. Later turned into an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, it hits all the necessities of the time including opening up at a beatnik club with a vigorous jazz flute player. That's where some guys are recruited to pull off an armored car heist that turns into a string of double crosses. Maybe the weirdest thing about this one is that it stars Edward Platt, who went on to star on Get Smart a few years later. It's modest but fun and twisty, again looking better than before here apart from funky black levels. You also get two shorts here, 1965's Christian propaganda film "Summer Decision?" (28m51s) about some surfer dudes figuring how what to do with their lives at camp (featuring Spider Baby's Beverly Washburn!), and 1960's "Teenage Diary" (29m21s), a familiar SWV Christian scare short about a high school couple dealing with an abusive parent who lands one of them in the hospital. Can the scripture show the way to dealing with a beatdown on the beach? Then you get a "Teenage Turmoil Trailer Reel" (12m45s) featuring Teenage Gang Debs, The Rebel Set, The Flaming Teenage, Four Boys and a Gun, The Cats, Teen-Age Strangler, and Damaged Goods. Petrucci returns for the insert booklet (which comes with a nifty sticker) to provide "Badass Babes, Depraved Delinquents, and Cycle Psychos - Sixties Style," an essay covering the joys of the soundtrack, the evolution of j.d. films, the state of exploitation in '66, the probable reason for the sleazy pre-credits sequence, the release history, and the emergence of cast member Sandra Kane decades after the fact. AGFA (Blu-ray)
Image (DVD)
THE REBEL SET
