EDITOR’S NOTE: Danger Zone 4: Mad Girls, Bad Girls was on USA Up All Night on January 9 and August 20, 1993; May 28, November 25 and December 11, 1994.

My wife always picks the best time to come down and see what I’m watching. She walked in during this, saw all the nudity and said, “What’s this called?” I paused it, she saw the title and stared me down and said, “Mad girls. Bad girls.” It was as if I got caught as a child doing something wrong.

Just look at this sell copy: “Jason Williams (Flesh Gordon) again plays Wade Olson the Harley riding renegade cop. This time, Olson finds himself deep in the Danger Zone when seven angry women kidnap him and take him into the desert away from the law. Sex is their weapon, and revenge is their motive. Mad Girls Bad Girls join them for a wild ride into the Danger Zone.”

Seven women take Wade out to the desert to kill him for jailing their biker men. But who gets to be the one who murders him? Whoever turns him on the most. Most of the movie has Lisa (Amerika, who was also a sex worker in The Kung Fu Mummy), Samantha (Kelly Brown, Brad from Hey Dude), Natalie (Linda Comers), Barbie (Jean Stewart, Nurse Pony in Class of Nuke ‘Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown) and Jessie (Beverly Trachtenberg, Fortress of Amerikkka) attacking the old man, making fun of his lack of erection and then, weirdly, all trying to have sex with him. The fact that Williams was involved creatively and monetarily may be the reason why.

This was directed by Gregory Vernon Jeffery, who also made Death Riders, and written by Williams with Gregory Poirier, who directed Tomcats and wrote Danger Zone III: Steel Horse War. He also wrote the story for National Treasure: Book of Secrets, which frankly ruined me for the rest of the day. How did he go from this to that?

The other movies in this are 1987’s The Danger Zone, 1989’s Danger Zone II: Reaper’s Revenge, 1990’s Danger Zone III: Steel Horse War and 1994’s Death Riders, all of which have Williams as Olsen and Robert Random as Reaper, other than the last movie, which has Robert Brand (and Leatherface R.A. Mihailoff). Who needed five of these movies when this one is so padded, where we see each biker’s man getting killed in flashbacks from the other movies? And Death Riders is just a compilation and is also called Valley of the Cycle Sluts. 

23 people watched this on Letterboxd before me. Let this knowledge guide your watching.

You can watch this on YouTube.